Idris Goodwin Archives - Little Village

Tonight I bought a Maker's For Amber Tamblyn

by Kent WilliamsApr 3, 2011Nov 23, 2013

Tonight I bought a Maker’s Mark For Amber Tamblyn
Not to celebrate drunkenness but to celebrate intoxication.
To celebrate how words can get you high
how the idea of being out of your mind
can take you out of your mind.

Arts & Entertainment

Idris Goodwin on Little Village Live: 4/21/10

by Matthew SteeleApr 21, 2010Nov 22, 2013

Playwright, break beat poet and hip hop educator Idris Goodwin takes us to school on the 4/21/10 edition of Little Village Live. Little Village Live is 5-6 pm every Wednesday on KRUI, 89.7 fm in Iowa City, or streaming live at http://kruiradio.org/listen. Idris Goodwin’s latest album, Break Beat Poems (out now on Chicago’s SGE Records), […]

Album Reviews

Idris Goodwin: Break Beat Poems

by Kent WilliamsApr 12, 2010Oct 13, 2014

Local Albums: April 2010 – Back in the day–1979–Hawkeye basketball star Ronnie Lester was a hip hop ambassador. Ronnie took his boom box everywhere , playing “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang nonstop. It was, to Iowa ears, something strange and alien, and yet irresistible. Idris Goodwin’s track “Isiah Thomas Camp” took me back to […]