Khadijah, Hermine, Jamal, and Natalie. I have never been a great fan of poetry, mainly because of my inability to understand the most profound forms, but these four poets captured my attention from beginning to end. I did not know what to expect before listening to these four poets recite their own and other's readings. Once it began, it proved worth my while to be in attendence. The first poet to speak, and my favorite speaker of them all, was Khadijah Queen.

 So if I told you that it did not take me absolutely forever to read this document, I would be lying. But truth is, now that I have read and understood the text, I have a better feel for what exactly the context of the "Quartet" is. Or maybe it is better to say what the "Quartet" is not. To begin, it is not a typical theater performance for we have two actors representing four different roles. Moreover, they even switch roles with each other, to the extent of playing opposing genders.

On Monday night I made my way to the Mac store on 57th and 5th. On my way there, I was simply blown away by all of the displays in the windows of the high end stores in the area.The one display that really stuck in my mind was the display in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman. There were three or four large windows with elaborate portrayals of common fairytale figures. I think my favorite was the window themed for "Princess and the Pea." An oversized mannequin was laying on top of a stack of wildly colored pillows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hrDNGmAigU