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Daniel Gray-Kontar is Replife
Replife is the pen name for Ohio-based lyricist, poet and writer daniel gray-kontar. His poetry has appeared in such anthologies as Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Spirit and Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, and on the sound recording Grand Slam: The Best of the National Poetry Slam, Volume One. Replife is also the 1994 national poetry slam co-champion. His social, music and arts writing has appeared in such magazines as The Source, The Village Voice, Wax Poetics, The Philadelphia Weekly and The Cleveland Free Times. Kontar is also founder of the underground monthly magazine, Urban Dialect.
With his legendary history as a performance poet, replife fuses his studied mastery of the written word with complicated rhyme schemes and imagistic narratives to create vivid snapshots of life in his native Cleveland – a place he calls “the third land” with its poverty rate that rivals some cities in the “third world.”
Replife is regarded as one of Cleveland’s most important writers, representing the fusion of theatre, narrative poetry, and the craft of emceeing. Here, you’ll find work in progress from his forthcoming independent full-length release, The Book Of Job. The project is a fusion of live instrumentation, electronic musical production, and sampling, featuring a combination of up-and-coming and veteran musicians and emcees from Cleveland, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, UK, Switzerland, San Diego, Virginia, Chicago, and Portland including Emmai Alaquiva, Skymark, Terry “T-Dash” Williams, Simone Elizabeth, Deyampert Giles and Jianda Johnson amongst others.
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