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Best Books of 2011
NONFICTION Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 By Caryl Phillips The New Press In this book of personal and critical essays, Caryl Phillips explores themes of cultural awareness and racial identity that are often at the center of his engaging fiction. Color Me English is a profound collection of previously written,
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Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy Interview with Tracey L. Walters As a child growing up in England what kind of literature did you read? Were you conscious of a Black British literary tradition? I didn’t really read literature as a child. I think I’m on record as saying that I did not read a work of fiction until…
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Making the Trees Shiver Book Launch
October 3, 2011 – The New York Writers Coalition presented its new book Making the Trees Shiver: An Anthology of the First Six Years of the Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival. Readers included poets Jacqueline Johnson, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor and young writers who’ve participated in the festival.
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Ringshout at MoCADA
September 16, 2011 – With fall creeping in it was a perfect evening to launch “Bookends,” a series of readings, which served as a 4-day lead in to the Brooklyn Book Festival. As part of the BBF program, Ringshout, “a place for black literature,” hosted writers Catherine E. McKinley, Emily Raboteau, and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts –three…
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Brooklyn Book Festival 2011
September 18, 2011 – Now in its sixth year, the Brooklyn Book Festival has become one of the premiere literary events in the country. Starting on the prior Thursday, BBF programmed readings throughout the borough, culminating with Sunday’s main event. Thousands of book lovers jammed multiple venues to hear some of their favorite authors read…
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Mosaic 27
Issue 27 09/2011 Interview Tiphanie Yanique by Kim Coleman Foote Tara Betts by Nicole Sealey John Murillo by Adisa Vera Beatty Excerpt “The Saving Work” from How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique Poetry When He Proposed by Tara Betts Belinda “Azucar” Gonzalez by Tara Betts Ode to Incense by Tara Betts Enter the Dragon/…
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Fort Greene Park Literary Festival 2011
August 20, 2011 – Young, talented poets, ages 7-17, gathered to read poetry at the seventh annual Fort Greene Park Literary Festival in Brooklyn, NY. The event was the culmination of a free creative writing workshop that takes place in the Park.
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Tara Betts in Fort Greene Park
July 21, 2011 – As part of the GreenLeaf Jazz and Spoken Word series, http://fortgreenepark.org/, which happens every week in Fort Greene Park, BK NYC, poet Tara Betts joined The Charlie Burnham Trio for a mix of music and verse. The ensemble, performed several numbers before an appreciative and hot (98 degrees) crowd. View event…
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Gully by Roger Bonair-Agard
Gully By Roger Bonair-Agaird Cypher Press Review by Adisa Vera Beatty Trinidadian poet Roger Bonair Agard has crafted with brave sight and memory, poems that are at times achingly tender while others are potent tales intent on being told. Entitled Gully the collection pays homage to the word’s multiple meanings.
