This is Gabriel Don. Her light cannot be kept in a jar. Her words turn lead into gold. Don’t mess with her babies — she will G check you without a posse. She is Queen Elizabeth I encamped at Tilbury, she is Isis piecing Osiris together, she is dangerous and vulnerable and powerful. Powerful because vulnerable. This is Gabriel Don’s first collection and she doesn’t mean business; she means “Oh Henry you can’t be so clumsy with your cock.” Don’t let the politeness fool you.

- Sharon Mesmer, Polish-American poet, fiction writer, essayist and professor of creative writing

WHEN:

Monday, Feb 18th from 7-9PM 

Light refreshments, a live band, poetry reading, books signing, in celebration of the new book and the beautiful photos inside that are on view from Feb 18-March 31st.
WHERE:

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY ART GALLERY @155 1st Ave Between E 10th and E 11th

Fly By Night Press, a subsidiary of A Gathering of the Tribes, will be publishing Black Jelly, a new book of poems by Melanie Maria Goodreaux and photographs by Nikki Johnson in January 2019.

You gotta see it to believe it. The Japanese show, Native New Yorkers featuring the legendary STEVE, CANNON. Mostly English with Japanese subtitles. (Part 1 of 2)

COLLECTION OF POETRY FROM 10 FEMALE AND NON-BINARY AUTHORS, SELECT IMAGES FROM COLOMBIAN ARTIST

          Steve Cannon is an ambassador and guardian for Jazz. Late at night in his apartment on East 6th st, in between thinking about the cosmos and the next chapter of his memoirs, he bangs on the piano. But mostly Steve keeps jazz alive by running his damn mouth. How many times have I heard the tale of him bumpin into Miles at the Village Vanguard, and bein Mr. Enthusiasm, going right up to Miles to ask if he'd played Kinda Blue yet, and Miles coming back with a minor note- “I played it. Didn’t you hear it?”.

We at A Gathering of the Tribes are happy to announce that our latest edition "Word: An Anthology" can now be found at the Smithsonian Libraries' National Museum of African American History and Culture Library.