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Organized by John Sobol, Action Poetry was Intended to u201cprovide the opportunity for spoken word performers from diverse cultural and aesthetic traditions to establish a dialogue based upon a shared commitment to exploring the word in performance.u201d It included participants from a variety of backgrounds, including poets, rappers, dub poets, monologists, performance artists, street entertainers, storytellers, and stand-up comedians. The Action Poetry fonds contains video and audio recordings of performances and events, proposals and planning documents, internal and external correspondence, biographical information on participants, newspaper clippings, research notes, photographs, and material related to organizing the Nat Christie Poetry Day and Nat Christie Poetry Jam events. Action Poetry faculty and participants included: John Sobol, Jill Battson, Erik Belgium, Meryn Caddell, Djewel Davidson, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Alex Ferguson, Kedrick James, Clifton Joseph, Darryl Keyes, Isobeau Miller, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Tracie Morris, Dasez Tempo and Richie D, Sean Paul Zitello (SPaZ), Lori Weidenhammer, Diane Wolkstein, Sheri-D Wilson, Adeena Karasick, Wendy Berner, Terrence Crane, Greg Young-Ing, Harold Carr, Peter McPhee, Thuong Vuong Riddick, Stephen Humphrey, Tim lander, Gunargie Ou2019Sullivan, Tom Henihan, Murdoch Burnett, Lillian Allen, Jeannette Armstrong, Paul Dutton, Bob Holman, Jayne Cortez, John Giorno, Richard Armstrong, the Pine Trio (Steve Lacy, Irene Aebi and Nicholas Isherwood), Aaron Williamson, Judy Radul and Deanna Ferguson, Uma Rao, Mary Dalton, and the Action Poetry house band Flex Plan Nine (Marilyn Lerner, Harold Carr, Tim Posgate and Peter Valsamis)."],"collection_source_collection_id":["ACP"],"persistent_url":["https://albertaonrecord.ca/action-poetry-fonds"],"item_title":["Djewel Davidson"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the Artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"creator_names":["Davidson, Djewel"],"creator_names_search":["Davidson, Djewel"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Davidson, Djewel\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Sobol, John"],"contributors_names_search":["Sobol, John"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Sobol, John\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series organizer\"]}]"],"Series_organizer_name":["Sobol, John"],"Performance_Date":[1994],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"\",\"recording_type\":\"\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T03:00:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"DAT\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["DAT"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1994-04-27\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"107, Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["107, Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, Canada"],"City":["Banff, Alberta"],"contents":["Item is an audio recording of performances from Action Poetry '94 by Djewel Davidson.\n\nDjewel Davidson\n- You wanted to kill me\n- National\n- Used words\n- Deeper than Pat B.\n- Girl I really [want?] to smash your car\n- Something to do with books\n- Cause you can't tape them\n- A few years earlier\n- Soft as home\n- These are my friends\n- Tied\n- Guilt trip\n- Little Lester's babes of pleasure\n- After effects\n- The stripper's ride\n- Smash my love\n- Within\n- Tracey\n- Cause no doubt by reading\n- A good thing\n- Silent thought balloons\n- Another of my faults\n- Buck and bud\n- One never sought\n- Revision\n- Very very good addict\n- Film shoot\n- Too much future\n- Better nights\n- As far as yesterday\n- Drowning in shallow days\n- Tonight one of you will eat with me\n- So many ways\n- Heart of the world\n- Love or touch\n- A new kind im gone\n- Because\n- Much as I care"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670552406851585,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:56.900Z","score":5.3938217},{"id":"5155","cataloger_name":["Andrew,Hennan"],"partnerInstitution":["Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity"],"collection_source_collection":["Action Poetry fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Action Poetry fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Paul D. 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The Action Poetry fonds contains video and audio recordings of performances and events, proposals and planning documents, internal and external correspondence, biographical information on participants, newspaper clippings, research notes, photographs, and material related to organizing the Nat Christie Poetry Day and Nat Christie Poetry Jam events. Action Poetry faculty and participants included: John Sobol, Jill Battson, Erik Belgium, Meryn Caddell, Djewel Davidson, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Alex Ferguson, Kedrick James, Clifton Joseph, Darryl Keyes, Isobeau Miller, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Tracie Morris, Dasez Tempo and Richie D, Sean Paul Zitello (SPaZ), Lori Weidenhammer, Diane Wolkstein, Sheri-D Wilson, Adeena Karasick, Wendy Berner, Terrence Crane, Greg Young-Ing, Harold Carr, Peter McPhee, Thuong Vuong Riddick, Stephen Humphrey, Tim lander, Gunargie Ou2019Sullivan, Tom Henihan, Murdoch Burnett, Lillian Allen, Jeannette Armstrong, Paul Dutton, Bob Holman, Jayne Cortez, John Giorno, Richard Armstrong, the Pine Trio (Steve Lacy, Irene Aebi and Nicholas Isherwood), Aaron Williamson, Judy Radul and Deanna Ferguson, Uma Rao, Mary Dalton, and the Action Poetry house band Flex Plan Nine (Marilyn Lerner, Harold Carr, Tim Posgate and Peter Valsamis)."],"collection_source_collection_id":["ACP"],"persistent_url":["https://albertaonrecord.ca/action-poetry-fonds"],"item_title":["Action Poetry live : Djewel Davidson, Thoung [Thuong Vuong-Riddick], and Darryl Keyes"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the Artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"creator_names":["Davidson, Djewel","Vuong-Riddick, Thuong","Keyes, Darryl"],"creator_names_search":["Davidson, Djewel","Vuong-Riddick, Thuong","Keyes, Darryl"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Davidson, Djewel\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Vuong-Riddick, Thuong\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Keyes, Darryl\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Sobol, John"],"contributors_names_search":["Sobol, John"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Sobol, John\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series organizer\"]}]"],"Series_organizer_name":["Sobol, John"],"Performance_Date":[1994],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"\",\"recording_type\":\"\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T03:00:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"DAT\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["DAT"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1994-04-26\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"107, Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["107, Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, Canada"],"City":["Banff, Alberta"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670552407900161,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:56.900Z","score":5.3938217},{"id":"5114","cataloger_name":["Andrew,Hennan"],"partnerInstitution":["Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity"],"collection_source_collection":["Action Poetry fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Action Poetry fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["Paul D. 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The Action Poetry fonds contains video and audio recordings of performances and events, proposals and planning documents, internal and external correspondence, biographical information on participants, newspaper clippings, research notes, photographs, and material related to organizing the Nat Christie Poetry Day and Nat Christie Poetry Jam events. Action Poetry faculty and participants included: John Sobol, Jill Battson, Erik Belgium, Meryn Caddell, Djewel Davidson, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Alex Ferguson, Kedrick James, Clifton Joseph, Darryl Keyes, Isobeau Miller, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Tracie Morris, Dasez Tempo and Richie D, Sean Paul Zitello (SPaZ), Lori Weidenhammer, Diane Wolkstein, Sheri-D Wilson, Adeena Karasick, Wendy Berner, Terrence Crane, Greg Young-Ing, Harold Carr, Peter McPhee, Thuong Vuong Riddick, Stephen Humphrey, Tim lander, Gunargie Ou2019Sullivan, Tom Henihan, Murdoch Burnett, Lillian Allen, Jeannette Armstrong, Paul Dutton, Bob Holman, Jayne Cortez, John Giorno, Richard Armstrong, the Pine Trio (Steve Lacy, Irene Aebi and Nicholas Isherwood), Aaron Williamson, Judy Radul and Deanna Ferguson, Uma Rao, Mary Dalton, and the Action Poetry house band Flex Plan Nine (Marilyn Lerner, Harold Carr, Tim Posgate and Peter Valsamis)."],"collection_source_collection_id":["ACP"],"persistent_url":["https://albertaonrecord.ca/action-poetry-fonds"],"item_title":["Djewel Davidson : [Action Poetry performance video]"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the Artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"creator_names":["Davidson, Djewel"],"creator_names_search":["Davidson, Djewel"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Davidson, Djewel\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Sobol, John"],"contributors_names_search":["Sobol, John"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Sobol, John\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series organizer\"]}]"],"Series_organizer_name":["Sobol, John"],"Performance_Date":[1994],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"3/4 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Video\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"\",\"recording_type\":\"\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:00:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"U-Matic\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["U-Matic"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"AV_type":["Video"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"ACP6_033_preservation.mov\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"00:42:46\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"12.8 GB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"Apple ProRes (preservation) and H.264 (access)\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1994-04-26\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/37017993\",\"venue\":\"Ground Round Theatre (Banff)\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"107, Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"51.1735409\",\"longitude\":\"-115.5608138\"}]"],"Address":["107, Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, Canada"],"Venue":["Ground Round Theatre (Banff)"],"City":["Banff, Alberta"],"contents":["Item is a video recording of Djewel Davidson's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:\n1. [You wanted to kill me] (0:58)\n2. [We got booked at the National] (0:19)\n3. Deeper than Pat Benatar (0:26)\n4. [Girl I’d really like to smash your car] (0:45)\n5. [What do we even talk about] (0:41)\n6. ‘Cause you can’t tape ‘em (0:09)\n7. [A few years earlier] (1:48)\n8. [I thought I knew what we were talking about] (0:32)\n9. [We got there and I told someone to start cooking] (0:59)\n10. [Painful and in silence] (0:31)\n11. [After about an hour and a half] (0:38)\n12. [Don’t want to remember] (1:17)\n13. [I woke up Monday morning] (0:30)\n14. [In the coin operated supermarket car] (0:21)\n15. [I’m keeping my shutters shut] (0:43)\n16. [It was warm outside] (0:12)\n17. [Perhaps I can be excused] (0:45)\n18. [Derrick was pleased] (1:54)\n19. Film shoot (5:00)\n20. [Time will tell] (4:00)\n21. [I ran naked through the threshold] (2:02)\n22. Song for Tamara (3:39)\n23. Nice try, now quit (3:29)\n24. [You know when you are with me] (3:44)"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Performances 19 through 24 are accompanied by Flex Plan Nine and an unidentified musician.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Performance titles and lengths have been transcribed from the U-matic case label. The titles of any works not explicitly given by the performer in the recording were likely supplied by the archives ca. 1996, and are enclosed in square brackets.\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670552416288769,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:56.900Z","score":5.3938217}]