5/27 EVENT Word Canvas: Garden of Poetics
--> Monday, May 27, 2013 , 7-9pm FREE Word Canvas: Garden of Poetics @ Bluestockings Bookstore Hosted by Robert Gibbons Featuring Monica Hand DuEwa Frazier Metta Sama Join us in celebration of the word with three intriguing women poets reading and discussing their new and selected work. Discussion hosted by poet, Robert Gibbons. About the Poets Monica Hand , author of me and Nina , (Alice James Books, 2012). Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including Aunt Chloe , Black Renaissance Noire , Naugatuck River Review , The Sow’s Ear, Drunken Boat , Beyond the Frontier, African-American Poetry for the 21 st Century, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade and American Creative Writers on Class . She has a MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University. A Cave Canem alum, she is also a founding member of Poets for Ayiti. Currently, she is a PhD candidate – Creative Writing – Poetry at the University