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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 21st 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 of Missouri-
Columbia.
Metta Sáma is a poet, professor, activist, painter, collage
artist, fiction and essay writer. She is the author of South of Here (New Issues Press, published under the name Lydia Melvin), a collection of poems, and Nocturne
Trio (YesYes Books, 2012), with visual artist Mihret Dawit. Her work
has appeared several journals. She received her MFA in creative writing from
Western Michigan University and her PhD in English with an emphasis in creative
writing at SUNY – Binghamton.
DuEwa Frazier is a poet, author and educator. She is the author of Goddess Under
the Bridge: Poems (Lit Noire Publishing, 2013) and the forthcoming young
adult novel, Deanne in the Middle. Her work has appeared in Tidal
Basin Review, Reverie, Kweli Journal, Poetry In Performance, X Magazine and
others. She earned the MFA in Creative Writing degree at The New School. DuEwa is a candidate for the Ed.M. degree in
Educational Leadership at Columbia University.
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