‘Burn a Bush’? Michelle Obama invites rapper Common to a poetry reading


Published: 12:48 PM 05/09/2011 | Updated: 2:24 PM 05/10/2011
By Neil Munro






Here’s an opportunity to relive your high-school poetry classes.

First Lady Michelle Obama has scheduled a poetry evening for Wednesday, and she’s invited several poets, including a successful Chicago poet and rapper, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., AKA “Common.â€