Please join us for Tribes Spotlight Series, featuring four amazing authors sharing their work, hosted by Chavisa Woods.
This is event is FREE and open to the public.
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To attend, simply open this Zoom link at 7pm EST on Thursday, March 11th:
You can also dial in and listen by phone: 1-646-558-8656
FEATURED GUESTS
Patricia Spears Jones is a poet, writer, editor, literary curator and activist. She is author of A LUCENT FIRE and 9 other poetry collections and two plays commissioned by Mabou Mines. She is the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize recipient. She is an emeritus fellow for Black Earth institute and organizer of American Poets Congress.
Yuko Otomo is a visual artist & a bilingual poet/writer of Japanese origin. She writes poetry; haiku; art criticism; travelogues & essays. Her publications include Garden: Selected Haiku(Beehive Press), Genesis (Sisyphus Press), Small Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Hand of The Poet (UDP), STUDY & Other Poems on Art (UDP), Elements (Feral Press), KOAN (New Feral Press) & FROZEN HEATWAVE: a poetry collaboration project with Steve Dalachinksy(Luna Bisonte Prods). She lives in New York City.
Lydia Cortés is the author of the poetry collections Lust for Lust and Whose Place. Her work has also been published in various anthologies such as Puerto Rican Poetry From Aboriginal Times to the Present, Resist Much, Obey Little and online forums as What Rough Beast (Indolent Books) and Upstreet Journal. In November 2O19, together with Julio Marzan and other poets, she was invited by Pen Puerto Rico to participate as a panelist in a Dialogue on Boricua Poets in New York. She is a MacDowell fellow and also was awarded at VCCA and Valparaiso in Andalusia Spain.
reg e gaines is a two time Tony Award nominated playwright and Grammy Award nominated lyricist. He has published four books of poetry, is editor of the 2015 poetry anthology, A Year In Ink, scored the PBS documentary, Senior Year and has served as artistic director of the NYC Downtown Urban Arts Festival since 2007. Recent projects include, director of Connect The Lots, a musical theater summer camp in Camden, New Jersey in 2014, director/ creative writing workshop facilitator of Through The Looking Glass, Center Theater Group, Los Angeles California, 2014-2016, director of Lyricist Fellowship Lab, Teaching Firm of America Charter School, Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn, winter/spring 2017, Is Poetry Theater? workshop facilitator, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC 2018 and writer, director, producer, The 88, a new musical with music by Calvin Gaines, 2020.