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Words live in the air for poet Cynthia Amoah

Amoah will appear as part of ‘Rhapsody & Refrain,’ a two-week, 30-performer poetry blitz kicking off this weekend at the East Side arts space Streetlight Guild, reading alongside Ajanae Dawkins on Wednesday, Sept. 4.

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The author, who reads at Two Dollar Radio HQ on Thursday, May 16, set out to ‘rupture’ the literary genre of magical realism and instead came to an uneasy reckoning with it in the process.