The Black Ladies Brunch Collective
English Department 2018-2019 Reading Series
Location
The Commons : Skylight Room
Date & Time
September 12, 2018, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Description
The Dresher Center for the Humanities is proud to co-sponsor the
English Department's 2018-2019 Reading Series with
The Black Ladies Brunch Collective, a group of Maryland-based poets
whose mission it is to “promote and inspire the voices of Black women.”
The mission of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective (BLBC),
founded in 2014 in Washington, D.C., is to promote and inspire the
voices of Black women – who have been, as a population, historically
marginalized and silenced. BLBC recognizes the artistic work of Black
women, and encourages and fosters collaboration between them. BLBC
serves the whole artistic community but specifically aims to inspire
under-privileged/under-represented/women of color. BLBC wishes to serve
as a model for other black women writers who desire to create social and
professional communities that not only support their creative
development but also enrich and maintain their spirits.
- Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of Haint, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Poetry Book Award, a Cave Canem fellow, and member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective. She is the poetry coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Her website is www.poetsandparents.com.
- Katy Richey’s work has appeared in Rattle, Cincinnati Review, RHINO and The Offing. She received an honorable mention for the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from Fine Arts Work Center, MD State Arts Council and The Cave Canem Foundation.
- celeste doaks, a poet and journalist, is the editor of Not Without Our Laughter, and author of Cornrows and Cornfields. Doaks, a Pushcart prize nominee, received her MFA from NC State University. Currently, she is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Delaware.
- Tafisha A. Edwards is the author of The Bloodlet, winner of Phantom Books’ 2016 Breitling Chapbook Prize. She is the Poetry Editor of Gigantic Sequins. Her poems have appeared in The Offing, The Nashville Review, Phantom, West Branch Wired, The Atlas Review and other print and publications.
- Saida Agostini is a queer afro-guyanese poet and activist.A Cave Canem graduate fellow, her work is featured or forthcoming in Origins, Drunk in the Midnight Choir, the Black Ladies Brunch Collective's anthology, Not Without Our Laughter, pluck!, The Little Patuxent Review, and other publications.
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