MN poetry: Louis Alemayehu reads ‘Akhenaten’s Dream’
Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down to talk with some amazing people in the Twin Cities arts community: Painter Ta-coumba Aiken, writer Carolyn Holbrook, storyteller Beverly Cottman, musician Douglas Ewart, artist/set-designer Seitu Jones and poet Louis Alemayehu.
I'll be posting more on that conversation at a later date, but in passing Alemayehu mentioned that one of his poems has been getting a fair bit of attention online, and he's now getting requests from the other side of the globe for translations.
No wonder: this reading is truly a performance, filled with big ideas. Alemayehu takes on the state of the world, and dreams of something better. When you have the time - it's just under 12 minutes long - check it out.
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