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Mos Def opens the show with a reading from Langston Hughes' "Harlem Sweeties."

Steve Coleman performs "I Wanna Hear a Poem."

Georgia Me performs "Full Figured Potential," a self-described fat girl's blues about the ridicule she faces because of her weight and a call to pay more attention to inner beauty.

Vanessa Hidary performs a piece about being a cultural bandit.

Lemon performs "Shine the Stoker," the legend of the stoker on the Titanic who swam his way to safety in Harlem.

Nikki Giovanni reads "Shoulders are for Emergencies Only," which begins, "Talk to me poem, I'm all alone."

Black Ice performs.

Suheir Hammad reads a revision of "First Writing Since," about being an Arab New Yorker in the aftermath of 9/11.

Mos Def opens the show with a reading from William Shakespeare's Sweet-and-Twenty.

Taylor Mali performs "What Teachers Make."

Yellow Rage performs "Listen Asshole."

Jewel performs "Wild Horse."

Flow Mentalz performs. (They Call Me Drama)

Dr. Sonia Sanchez performs "Poem for Some Women," about a crack addict taking her 7 year-old daughter to a crackhouse and leaving her there.

Shihan performs, "Love Like."

Dawn Saylor performs, "Isis."

Kayo performs.