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

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

Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems - Now available in Ebook formats!

Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems 

by DuEwa Frazier

Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems is now available in Ebook formats!  Visit the following websites to purchase for your e-reader!

• Amazon Kindle

• B&N Nook

• Indigo (Kobo Edition)

From the award nominated poet and author of Shedding Light From My Journeys, Stardust Tracks on a Road, Ten Marbles and a Bag to Put Them In and others, comes a new volume of powerful, inspirational poetry.  Goddess Under the Bridge DuEwa's fourth poetry collection is a meditation on the beautiful, the ugly, the passion, the struggle and reflection of the inner goddess looking out and reflecting the world.  The poems pay homage to Alice Coltrane, Suzan Lori Parks, Lucille Clifton, Pearl Cleage and other notable artists and thinkers.  Frazier's words shake and shout, rant and conjure moving and familiar images from the past, present and future of one's waking life.  The setting of these poems may be Harlem, St. Louis, Brooklyn, Chicago, a river, a bridge, a road or the seat of a soul. 

11/8 Event: Glitter Pomegranate Poetry Series - 7pm @ Eve's

GLITTER POMEGRANATE PERFORMANCE EVENT!

 Friday, November 8, 2013 @ 7:00 PM

 

 Hosted by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Founder & Curator 

FEATURING:

 

DuEwa Frazier - (author of Goddess Under the Bridge)

Robert Gibbons

Nichelle Johnson

Charan Morris and an open mike

 

 Eve's Lounge   

769 Washington Avenue  

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York 

(between Sterling & St. Johns)

  

 

This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, inc. with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts and with the support of Governor Cuomo and the NY State legislature, and by Calypso Muse.

My new book! Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems

Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems by DuEwa Frazier

It's been a long while since I have actively promoted my books - so I'm happy to finally post about GODDESS UNDER THE BRIDGE: POEMS (Lit Noire Publishing) my new volume of poetry which was published this spring!  

You can find (and purchase) Goddess Under the Bridge here:

Lulu.com Paperback

Amazon.com Kindle Edition


Follow me via Twitter @duewa1 and @DuEwaWorld for updates!  Visit my website at DuEwaWorld for my blog posts and calendar.

5/27 EVENT Word Canvas: Garden of Poetics

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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 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 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.  

 

Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St  New York, NY 10002
(212) 777-6028

www.bluestockings.com

9/30 RADIO INTERVIEW: Tony Medina, Author of The President Looks Like Me

The President Looks Like Me is a new book a poems forthcoming by poet, children's author and Howard University professor, Dr. Tony Medina.  The President Looks Like Me will be published by Just Us Books.  

Tony Medina featured on RHYMES, VIEWS & NEWS TALK RADIO hosted by DuEwa Frazier on Sunday, September 30th @ 5pm EST!  Listen to the interview now!

Publication News: Tidal Basin Review Summer 2012 Issue

T ∫ B ∫ R

tidal basin review
 

Tidal Basin Press Launches the Summer 2012 E-Issue!



The complete E-Issue of the Tidal Basin Review is available at www.TidalBasinPress.org. 


September 14, 2012 – Washington, DC  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



Tidal Basin Press, Inc. launches the SUMMER 2012 Issue of the Tidal Basin Review.



Tidal Basin Review is an electronic literary journal with a print-on-demand option. Tidal Basin Press, Inc. seeks to amplify the voice of the human experience through art that is intimate, engaging, and audacious. We make every effort to include work that propels the present artistic landscape and to publish the wide spectrum of American voices.



The Summer 2012 Issue features artist, Monica Ong, and the works of 31 writers, many of them reflecting on their respective cultures. Also, meet Erik Mortenson, Summer 2012 center-featured Series Poet, whose poem “From the Fifteenth Station” graces the print version of the Summer 2012 Issue available for purchase now. Read his interview with TBR Editor-in-Chief, Randall Horton, on The Basin Blog.

Summer 2012 Contributors: Claudia Akyeampong, Allie Marini Batts, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Zackary Sholem Berger, Jeremy Bruno, D. S. Butterworth, Darren C. Demaree, celeste doaks, Jacqueline Doyle, DuEwa Frazier, Brother Yao (Hoke Smith Glover III), Rain Goméz, Peggie Hale, Amaris Howard, Ann Howells, Geoffrey Jacques, Joseph Legaspi, Henry Leung, Richard Luftig, Cynthia Manick, Erik Mortenson, Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Monica Ong, Glenis Redmond, Jay Rubin, Aisha Sharif, Cherene Sherrard, Debra J. Stone, Valerie Valdes, Andrea Walls, Gerald Yelle and Natalie Young



View the full E-Issue and order your print copy of the Summer 2012 Issue Tidal Basin Review at www.TidalBasinPress.org.



Press Contacts:  

Melanie Henderson, Managing Editor

Randall Horton, Editor-in-Chief

tidalbasinpress@gmail.com

Radio Interview: 4/15 Patricia Spears Jones

Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio is all NEW on Sunday, April 15, 2012 featuring poet and author PATRICIA SPEARS JONES!  APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!   The interview will air live at 5pm EST.  Listen live or call-in to join the conversation at 646-716-9474. 


Patricia Spears Jones is an award winning poet, professor, and author of Swimming to America (2011) from Red Glass Books; Painkiller (2010) and Femme du Monde (2006) from Tia Chucha Press and The Weather That Kills (1995) Coffee House Press; Swimming to America; Repuestas! and Mythologizing Always, chapbooks.  She resides in New York.  Visit her website at http://www.patriciaspearsjones.com

2/19 RADIO INTERVIEW: Poet Monica A. Hand - Author of me and Nina

Poet Monica A. Hand - Author of me and Nina 02/19 by DuEwa Frazier | Blog Talk Radio

Jazz, Books & Talking to Strangers in DC

So during my Maryland/DC excursion this past weekend, I had to step inside of a few local bookstores.  The geek that I am wouldn't allow me to pass up a chance to browse through books, some new, some used, all valuable of course.  I first stopped into Busboys & Poets located at 14th and V. St. in DC. I wasn't in the mood to sit down and have a drink. I went straight for the poetry section. There I found books that I've never actually seen because my nose has been in my MFA books for the last 2 years. While in the poetry section, flipping through the glorious pages of several books of poetry I made a list of the books I planned to purchase and read : Femme du Monde: Poems by Patricia Spears Jones, Life on Mars: Poems by Tracy K. Smith, The new black by Evie Shockley, Totem by Gregory Pardlo, Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith and many others. Some of the books I picked up were signed by the author, others weren't. I found myself feeling like a book groupie. I wanted to chase the words, wherever they might lead me. Perhaps they would lead me to write new poems. That's always good.



Later, I found a gem of a bookstore in the Adams Morgan area, Idle Time Books located at 18th Street, NW.  The store manager, a bright eyed man wearing glasses who looked like a playwright was behind the counter.  I glanced at the DC Jazz Festival poster hanging on the wall near the front door.  A picture of one of the featured artists, Bobby McFerrin caught my eye.  I've never been to the Jazz Fest, always wanted to go. I asked the manager if they had anymore posters (knowing I could look on the internet for the schedule, but what the heck I was in the mood to collect brochures) with the full festival schedule.  "No, we don't generally keep a bunch of them.  If we did everyone would give us stuff and we'd have to lay it out all over the counter..." Yeah, I understand. Bookstores certainly don't need extra clutter.  There were wall to wall books and carts with books in them.  The books outside the store, in a cart, were being sold for somewhere around $1 maybe a little more, maybe a little less.  The sign read that you have to come inside and pay for them.  Makes sense.   

Jazz was playing in the background at the store.  There was an elderly black man talking to the manager.  The man was enjoying the ambiance.  I heard him ask the store manager, "Is that 'Kind of Blue'?"  He was talking about the song playing in the background.  I grew up listening to jazz music.  I knew the song wasn't "Kind of Blue" or even somewhat blue, it was "So What" by Miles Davis - one of my favorite, upbeat jazz songs.  So I said so.   "It's 'So What'," I told the store manager and the elderly man.  "Yep, she's right.  She knows," said the manager.  "So you like jazz?" The elderly man asked me.  "Yes, I do," I said.  We chatted for a few minutes about jazz greats.  He wanted to quiz me, see if I was really a jazz lover.  It was refreshing to talk to random strangers and not worry if they're going to ask me for $1 right after (if you live in NYC you know what I mean).

After talking with the man, I walked the aisles, pulling out all of the books that reached out to me like Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest J. Gaines, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Tina McElroy Ansa's Ugly Ways and Baby of the Family, my friend Gloria Malette's Shades of Jade and a Robert Frost poetry volume.  I felt like I had a touch of literary ADD -- I couldn't focus on sitting down with one book.  The joy of inhaling the smell of old and used books overcame me.  In every aisle at least one person was sitting on the floor reading.  A few people were browsing through postcards.  We were all synced up to these old books, not worried about tweeting or updating our status on Facebook, it was all about the now-of-books.  I kept trying to decide whether I wanted to ask the store manager how a bookstore that primarily sells used and out-of-print books is able to survive in this economy.  Let alone the competition from book lovers who've switched to digital e-readers.  He told me an interesting story of when poet Nikki Giovanni came into the store to browse the poetry section.  "I knew it was her," he said.  He knew it was her after checking a recent photo of her on the internet.  He said she was really nice.  Something else interesting he shared, "authors who come in and buy their own books."  It sounds funny, but I'm sure it's a reality.  If you're an author and your books are out-of-print, it's a blessing to find a bookstore that still carries them!  You may want to round them all up as keepsakes or sell them at some point.  The manager remarked that one author even asked, "Isn't it illegal for you to make me pay for my own book?"  The nerve.  If the author received a book deal, he or she was already paid for the books by the publisher.  Everyone needs to make a dollar, even the independent bookseller.  Buying your books out of a bookstore wouldn't be an odd thing for an author who's not self published or on Kindle.  While browsing, I was amused by the title of a book I had never heard of, Famous Writers School: A Novel.  I wondered what the book was about. Well if you can't be a rock star, perhaps the next best thing is being a famous writer.  But you can't go to school for that.  Can you? (sarcasm).

A couple of hours later after hanging with a friend, I ran into the elderly man I met at Idle Books.  He was sitting on a bench in front of Starbucks, enjoying the breeze.  Probably humming a little jazz too.  "Leaving so soon?" he asked.  "Yeah, but I'll be back."  I smiled and headed to the Metro station. 

RADIO INTERVIEW: 4/16 Poet & Storyteller, Darryl Alladice

Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio hosted by DuEwa Frazier is all new this Sunday, April 16th at 5pm EST featuring

Poet & Storyteller, Darryl Alladice.

Darryl will share poetry from his latest book Jaundice and discuss his work as an educator and storyteller.

Listen LIVE or call-in to talk with guest author Darryl Alladice at #646-716-9474!



3/13 Radio Interview: DuEwa Frazier on The Funky Writer Show hosted by Rob Batista

Author, poet and publisher, DuEwa Frazier will be the special guest on The Funky Writer Show this Sunday, March 13 at 3PM Eastern. The Funky Writer Show is hosted by Rob Batista. 

To listen live, go to www.blogtalkradio.com/thefunkywriter or call-in at 347-843-4784.  Visit http://thefunkywriter.wordpress.com  for more information on DuEwa's interview segment.

RADIO INTERVIEW: 2/5 DuEwa Frazier on the Certain Ones Radio Show!

I am featuring on a wonderful radio show hosted by author, Vanessa Richardson this Saturday, February 5th, 2011 at 6:00pm on The Certain Ones Blog Talk Show. The title of the show is "Poetic Elixir For Your Soul!" Also featuring
Muyiwa Babalola and Acholam Birago. Listen Live!! Check out The Certain Ones Radio Show this Saturday!

2011 Kweli Journal Sanctuary Issue is here!!

The 2011 Fall/Winter issue of Kweli Journal is now here! Edited by Laura Pegram,Radhiyah Ayobami, Naomi Extra, Luivette Resto, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Gena Lue Tsing, and Nicole Vasquez the issue features stunning poetry, nonfiction, and fiction by emerging and established writers. The issue also features a conversation with Angie Cruz and a moving photo essay by Haitham Abdulmajed.

Check out poetry by DuEwa Frazier ("What Light Looks Like" for Pearl Cleage), Santee Frazier, Gloria Amescua, Phillipp W. Aurwand, Shokry Eldaly II, MEH, Cynthia Oka, and more!!

RADIO INTERVIEW: 12/3 Poet Derrick Harriell on Rhymes, Views & News Radio!

Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio hosted by DuEwa Frazier, features poet and author Derrick Harriell this Friday at 8:30pm EST! Listen live or call in to hear Derrick discuss his new book COTTON!

Listener Call-in Number: (646) 716-9474

Upcoming Show: 12/3/2010 8:30 PM

Host Name:	DuEwa Frazier
Show Name:	Interview w/poet and author, Derrick Harriell
Date / Length:	12/3/2010 8:30 PM - 45 min
Length:	45 min
Description:	Derrick Harriell was born and raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He holds an MFA from and is currently a dissertator in UW-Milwaukee's English Department where he also teaches Chicago State UniversityCreative Writing. A dynamic presenter of his work, Harriell has read across the country, including Chicago State's Gwendolyn Brooks Conference, Atlanta's Black Arts Festival, and Meir Festival Park's Summerfest. He's worked as assistant poetry editor for Third World Press, and is currently Poetry Editor for the Cream City Review. His poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Cream City Review, Reverie, and forthcoming Main Street Rag. Harriell has recently completed his first full length manuscript, Cotton.
Category:	Books

RADIO INTERVIEW: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Poet & Author of Miracle Arrhythmia

RHYMES, VIEWS & NEWS TALK RADIO hosted by DuEwa Frazier features an interview with poet, Rachel Eliza Griffiths on Sunday, October 24th @ 7pm EST.
Rachel Eliza will discuss her latest book Miracle Arrhythmia (September 2010, Willow Books) and her writing life.

Listen live via radio show's webpage or call in to join the discussion at 646-716-9474!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, writer, photographer, and painter. A Cave Canem Fellow, she received the MA in English Literature from the University of Delaware and the MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the recipient of fellowships including Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, New York State Summer Writers Institute, Soul Mountain, New England Humanities Council, and others.

Her literary and visual work has been widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies, and periodicals including Callaloo, The New York Times, Crab Orchard Review, Mosaic, RATTLE, Puerto Del Sol, Brilliant Corners, Indiana Review, Lumina, Ecotone, The Acentos Review, PMS: poem memoir story, Saranac Review, Torch, The Drunken Boat, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Inkwell, Black Arts Quarterly, African American Review, Comstock Review, Hambone, and many others.

She is the author of two chapbooks, Turn of Heaven (Paris Boulevard Press) and According to Beauty (Paris Boulevard Press) and two forthcoming full-length collections of poetry, Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books, 2010) and Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2011. She lives in New York.

POETRY: My Old Man Was Always On the Lam by Tony Medina

I just got my poetry loving hands on MY OLD MAN WAS ALWAYS ON THE LAM. I talked with Tony about his work as a writer and professor of English, at the recent Capital Book Festival in Maryland.

Reviews
My Old Man Was Always on the Lam contains powerful, moving, compassionate poems that spring out of the life of Harlem apartments and streets. It contains deeply felt, evocative poems of loss and mourning. In an era when too much work produced depends totally on the polished surface provided by the use of brilliant language. Tony Medina risks everything with his willingness to tear away the surface skin of relationships and life, to journey to that dark center where memorable poetry lives. My Old Man Was Always on the Lam is the work of a truly original and vibrant poet.

--Maria Mazziotti Gillan, author of the American Book Award-winning All That Lies Between Us


Demonstrating a combination of traits that gives him a voice like no one else, Tony Medina's poems are funny, intense, and tragic, and sometimes make you laugh until you cry. There's a terrible beauty in this book, a sparse and haunting music that stays with you. These poems are brave, and true, and well worth returning to again and again.

--Leslie Heywood, author of Pretty Good for a Girl and The Proving Grounds


Tony Medina infuses his signature wordplay with a heightened aesthetic urgency in these bare-boned, tender laments for his parents, extended family, and humanity or lack thereof. The old folks/In front of/My father's/Building are/ Buildings that/have been/Abandoned - these poems are sober brutal truths as pavement for a long ill-tempered sprint with death. And life. --Quraysh Ali Lansana, author of They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems


About the Author
Tony Medina was born in the South Bronx and raised in the Throgs Neck Housing Projects. He served in the United States Army and earned a BA in English at Baruch College, CUNY, on the GI Bill. He has taught at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus and Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. The author of several books for adults and children, his poetry, fiction and essays appear in over forty anthologies. Medina, whose most recent book is I and I, Bob Marley, earned a MA and PhD in English from Binghamton University, SUNY, and is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University.

EVENT: 6/27 Lit Noire Publishing Presents Womens Mixed Genre Reading

Lit Noire Publishing
Presents
Womens Mixed Genre Reading
Sunday, June 27, 2010 7pm

Join us for an evening of readings from three inspirational, women authors. Featuring poet and performance artist DuEwa Frazier (Goddess Under the Bridge and Check the Rhyme Anthology), writer and entrepreneur Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts (Interruption: The Gospel According to Crystal Justine) and writer and multi-faceted artist Omo Misha (Manifesting Things).

Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY 10002

Directions:
Bluestockings is located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington - 1 block south of Houston and 1st Avenue.

By train: F train to 2nd Ave, exit at the 1st Ave, and walk one block south.

By car: If you take the Houston exit off of the FDR, then turn left onto Essex (aka Avenue A), then right on Rivington, and finally right on Allen, you will be very, very close.

Visit:
www.bluestockings.com
www.litnoirepublishing.com
www.traceymlewis.com
www.manifestingthings.com

NEW BOOK!: Ten Marbles children's poetry book

The cover for my new children's book has just been revised! I'm so excited!
Check it out!
Ten Marbles and a Bag to Put Them In
Poems for Children (Lit Noire Publishing)
by DuEwa Frazier

Ten Marbles is a collection of poems for children. The poems cover themes ranging from love for nature and animals to summertime fun and more! The book features writing and drawing activities, in addition to comprehension questions after selected poems. This collection is perfect for bedtime storytelling, classroom literacy activities, and inspiring children to write creatively. Ages 5-8


Publication Date:
May 28 2010
ISBN/EAN13:
097190524X / 9780971905245
Page Count:
52
Binding Type:
US Trade Paper

EVENT: 4/24 BKLYN Soul Renaissance, 8pm @ Rustik!

BKLYN Soul Renaissance
Soul, Funk + Hip Hop Artists Rockin’ the Mic
Saturday, April 24, 2010
8pm - 12am
$10 cover at the door

FEATURING:
DuEwa
Tah Phrum Duh Bush
Afterwork Collective Featuring Rakiem
Masauko & Yolanda

Rustik Tavern
471 Dekalb Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11205
Train: G train to Classon Ave
Bus: 38 to Dekalb Ave. and Classon Ave