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Tina Ramirez Interview, Karina Lopez
Tina Ramirez Interview, Karina Lopez
Asian American Art Oral History Project
2010 interview with poet Tina Ramirez
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai Interview, Flor Sigaran
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai Interview, Flor Sigaran
Asian American Art Oral History Project
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who fights for cultural pride and survival through how she spits and how she lives.
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai has been featured in over 400 performances worldwide at venues including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the House of Blues, the Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and three seasons of the award-winning “Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry.” The author of Inside Outside Outside Inside (2004) and Thought Crimes (2005) and the CD Infinity Breaks (2006), Tsai has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Erykah …