Word Travels + Miles Merrill

Born in Chicago, Miles Merrill is the son of a Black Panther father and a mother whose family tree dates back to British-American Colonialism. His mother’s ancestors enslaved his father’s. The tension of embattled generations twists it’s way through the work of this one man. The hit of Sydney Festival 2005 with his show Slamming and guest of this year's Sydney Writers Festival, Miles Merrill is Australia's spoken-word tour de force. Miles combines elements of theatre, hip-hop, slam poetry and music, flinging words in a rapid fire onslaught of versified emotion. His CD What Night Knows, can be heard on JJJ, ABC Radio National, and Sydney’ s FBI Radio