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10/15 Book Signing for YA Novel Deanne in the Middle @ Hampton Roads B&N

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Author  DuEwa Frazier  will  read from and sign copies of their latest YA novel and other titles at the Hampton Roads Barnes and Noble Bookstore on  Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 5pm Barnes & Noble Peninsula Town Center, Hampton, VA FREE and open to the public! Follow DuEwa on Twitter @duewafrazier1

10/13 EVENT: DuEwa Features at Brick City Poetry Festival -- St. Louis

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Tuesday October 13, 2016 at 7pm Opening Reception for St. Louis Brick City Poetry Festival featuring St. Louis Poet Laureate, Dr. Michael Castro, Maria Balogh, David A.N. Jackson, DuEwa Frazier, Linda Smith and more!  Celebrating the word and the release of CROSSING THE DIVIDE: A ST. LOUIS POETRY ANTHOLOGY ! KDHX  3524 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103

9/24 EVENT: DuEwa Features at 100 Thousand Poets for Change -- St. Louis

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DuEwa will be a featured poet at the  6th Annual “100 Thousand Poets & Musicians for Change – St. Louis” Produced by Susan “Spit-Fire” Lively & Amanda Wells Saturday, Sept. 24th 4:30 – 10:30 p.m. MELT 2712 Cherokee Street St. Louis, MO 63118 Free and open to the public. Follow DuEwa on Twitter @duewafrazier1

9/19 RADIO INTERVIEW: Author Dan O' Brien on Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio

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Author Dan O' Brien will feature on DuEwa Frazier's Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio ! Dan will discuss his latest book, SIXTH PRIME.  Listen live on Monday, September 19th @ 7:30pm EST. Call in and talk with the author (929) 477 - 11177.   

CELEBRATION: January 27th is Multicultural Children's Book Day!

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Thanks to author, blogger Mia Wenjen , and team of children's authors, illustrators, and book promoters - Multicultural Children's Book Day is happening again this year on January 27, 2016!. I am happy to be an Author Sponsor for this celebration of multicultural children's books!   We STILL need #diverse children's books! And we need to celebrate them widely.  We need more children's authors of diverse children's books and more children's editor/publishers who have an interest in a myriad of stories, told by diverse author perspectives AND FOR diverse young readers around the globe.  Support this wonderful initiative and find our more about Multicultural Children's Book Day here ! - DuEwa Author of Alice's Musical Debut  (2019), Quincy Rules(2016), Deanne in the Middle(2014), Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems(2013), Ten Marbles and a Bag to Put Them In(2010), Check the Rhyme Anthology (editor 2006), and Shedding Light From My Journeys (2002, ...

5/14 EVENT: Elizabeth Alexander Gives Talk on The Light of the World - Chicago

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Award winning poet, professor and memoirist Elizabeth Alexander is scheduled to give a talk on her recent release, The Light of the World (2015, Grand Central Publishing) at Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago.   Elizabeth will discuss her memoir, which transforms the unexpected death of her husband into a compelling, heartfelt work of art. The event will take place on Thursday, May 14, 2015 from 6:30 - 7:30 pm.

AWARDS: Digest by Gregory Pardlo Wins the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

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Congratulations to poet Gregory Pardlo who was recently awarded the covetous Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his 2014 collection, Digest (Four Way Books)! About the Poet Gregory Pardlo is the author of Totem , which received the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007, and Digest , (Four Way Books, 2014), which was nominated for the 2015 NAACP Image Award in poetry. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review , Boston Review , The Nation , Ploughshares , and Tin House , as well as anthologies including Angles of Ascent , the Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry , and two editions of Best American Poetry . He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a fellowship for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. An Associate Editor of Callaloo , he is currently a Teaching Fellow in Undergraduate Writing at Columbia University.