Smokey Robinson reinvents himself as a performance poet

Motown man will present six poems in a new spoken-word show, taking people on 'a walk through his history'Smokey Robinson is to perform his poetry at an event in Los Angeles this weekend.The former Motown singer will appear on Friday and Saturday at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre, performing Words: a "spoken-word programme built around several long-form poems," according to the Los Angeles Times. "These poems are masterpieces," producer Brian French told the paper. "They're long, interestin...

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