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Down These Mean Streets: A Piri Thomas Celebration
What does it mean to be Black, Puerto Rican, and marginalized, all within your small neighborhood, within your family? In 1967, Piri Thomas’s seminal memoir “Down These Mean Streets” chronicled his life –a young man living a hard life in the streets of El Barrio, Spanish Harlem. The book would go on to become required…
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Camille T. Dungy: Interview
Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison; Suck on the Marrow, for which she received a 2011 American Book Award; and Smith Blue. She is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award.…
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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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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.
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Celebration of the Word
On Sunday, June 12, 2011 at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY; The Caribbean Cultural Theater presented “Celebration of the Word – An Evening of Letter, Lyrics and Ol’ Talk.” The event invited 11 spoken word artists, claiming seven nationalities to join in commemorating five years of Poets & Passion – A Caribbean Literary Lime.
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Tara Betts: Interview
Tara Betts Interview with Nicole Sealey Named one of Essence magazine’s 40 Favorite Poets, alongside Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Suheir Hammad, Tracey K. Smith and others, it is simply impossible not to like poet Tara Betts.
