MOSAEC Books-Poet on Watch -
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Published on: 6/1/2000
Last Visited: 7/5/2008
One look at the cover of Angela Williamston's first book Poet on Watch (P.O.W.), and you know you're in for something different.A sepia-toned photo of Williamston is flush left; words pour over her face as she looks out into the world; to her right is the title of the book.It looks more like a movie poster than a book cover - but then this is no ordinary book.
Williamston (who is also known as P.O.W.) is the director and producer for Blowin' Up a Spot Video Magazine, a local cable access television show in Houston, Texas.
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Williamston (who is also known as P.O.W.) is the director and producer for Blowin' Up a Spot Video Magazine, a local cable access television show in Houston, Texas.The "video" magazine's primary goal is to make media accessible to those who have little or no access to media technology, thus increasing their media literacy.What Williamston does with P.O.W. is to consolidate her political and artistic concerns into this physically small, yet dense collection of writing.P.O.W. alternately weaves between poetry, interviews and political statements with ease, setting text against highly stylized graphics just as interesting as the writing itself.
Williamston is a talented writer.
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In her artists' statement, Williamston pointedly asks, "who provides media literacy to the community at large?"She goes on to contextualize this provocative question by saying "Sunchildren, even though we obtain 85% of information from visual images and 15% from print, most of these images and literature are totally irrelevant to our daily lives and our experiences."Williamston makes it clear that she wants to even the playing field by educating black folk about mass media and how we can take control of it.
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