Performance Poet Sekou Sundiata

Fresh Air

Published March 25, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

A professor of English literature at the New School for Social Research, Sundiata is one of New York's notable spoken-word artists. His one-man show, about the year his kidney failed, runs at the Apollo Theater in New York City through April 10, 2005. This interview originally aired Nov. 20, 2002.

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