Author: Arisa

AWP Kansas City

Friday, February 9, 2024 12:00-1:00 PM: Book signing at Black Lawrence Press (Bookfair) 1:45-3:00 PM: Poet to Playwright: On the Dramatic Joy of Changing Hats with panelists Jason Bayani, Arisa White, Tess Taylor, and Patricia Smith. Poetry and playwriting are linked crafts—and not only in the hands of the famed Bard of Avon. What happens

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Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival

Writing In & Through the Legacy of Black Women Poets Friday, November 3 | 2:45-4:00 pm | Panel 24 Jackson Convention Complex 207/208 “The Theme Song of the Chicago Colored Girl – Singing Along with Mama Gwen” Patricia Smith, Princeton University “Our Grace, Sarcophilous” Duriel E. Harris, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora

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Post Pardon: The Opera | Librettist & Composer Talk (June 23) and Work-in-Progress Showing (June 30)

LIBRETTIST & COMPOSER TALK Friday, June 23, 6:30-8:00pm, Greene Block + Studios, Waterville, Maine. FREE Post Pardon is an opera-in-development that draws on African-diasporic spirituality and folklore to tell the story of Willow, a queer activist confronted with the ghost of her estranged mother who committed murder-suicide. Moderated by director Ellen Sebastian Chang, librettist Arisa

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2022 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival

If you find yourself in Newark, NJ, I will be reading and in conversation with poets from Thursday, Oct 20 – Saturday, Oct 22. There are over eighty poets joining the Festival this year, and you can find the full schedule here: https://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-events/program/full-schedule/ THURSDAY, OCT 20 9:00-10:00a: Festival Poets Reading with Wendy Barnes, Rochelle Hurt,

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