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Reading at twenty-two Gallery, Plaza-Midwood, Charlotte, NC (Sunday Oct. 25, 8 pm)
I'll be reading with co-features Christopher Gaumer, Jessica Prescott, C.T. McGaha & Rusty Colton at twenty-two Sunday Oct. 25, 8 pm. Come through QC!
Open mic to follow.
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Open mic to follow.
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Work.
Some newish work out in High Point University's Apogee ("who needs 'im", "Sundays on Rosehaven", "Luxury")
and Rove ("the flag")
http://www.highpoint.edu/library/file...
http://www.rovepoetry.org/
Thanks to Charmaine Cadeau Ward of High Point University (http://www.brickbooks.ca/bookauthors/...) & Elizabeth Barnett of Rove (http://jdbrecords.blogspot.com/2015/0...) for the opportunity.
and Rove ("the flag")
http://www.highpoint.edu/library/file...
http://www.rovepoetry.org/
Thanks to Charmaine Cadeau Ward of High Point University (http://www.brickbooks.ca/bookauthors/...) & Elizabeth Barnett of Rove (http://jdbrecords.blogspot.com/2015/0...) for the opportunity.
March 16th Reading with Venus Thrash, 2016 UNCC Black Poetry Series at National Council of Black Studies Conference (NCBS)
Again- failed to post about it but I was thrilled to be reading w/ my sister, Cave Canem comrade & fellow American University MFA alum Venus Thrash, author of The Fateful Apple (Hawkins Publishing, 2014) at UNCCharlotte Center City on March 16. Venus is such a star- it's always a pleasure to hear her resonant voice and feel the passion she brings to a reading. I highly recommend The Fateful Apple and can't wait for her next one.
Thanks to the UNCC English & African Studies Depts, The Honors College (particularly Dr. Malin Pereira), Chancellor's Diversity Challenge Fund, Center City Campus, and grad student Kristen Stewart for all her work on our gorgeous promo flyer. And thanks to everyone that came out-it was good to see faculty like Dr. Janaka Lewis (English) & Dr. Chris Cameron (History) down at Center City.
Google these names and buy a book.
More on Venus here:
http://venusthrash.wix.com/venusthrash
Thanks to the UNCC English & African Studies Depts, The Honors College (particularly Dr. Malin Pereira), Chancellor's Diversity Challenge Fund, Center City Campus, and grad student Kristen Stewart for all her work on our gorgeous promo flyer. And thanks to everyone that came out-it was good to see faculty like Dr. Janaka Lewis (English) & Dr. Chris Cameron (History) down at Center City.
Google these names and buy a book.
More on Venus here:
http://venusthrash.wix.com/venusthrash
Poems at Public Pool
Thanks to the folks at Public Pool for publishing these poems: "The Blood" (for Charleston), "Shawty" (Harmony In Red) & Cankerworms (for South Sudan).
http://www.publicpool.org/dope/cedric...
http://www.publicpool.org/dope/cedric...
Cave Canem Reading, Impact Hub Baltimore, Dec. 2
It was great seeing old friends and meeting Cave Canem family I didn't know last week in Baltimore. This was my first non-open mic reading in the Baltimore/DC area since I moved back in November '16. I read with Saida Agostini, Alan King, Jadi Omowale, and Cherese Pollard, ahead of featured poet (and fellow '11 groupmate and graduate) Khadijah Queen. Her latest, "I'm So Fine..." is mostly a collection of prose poems-stream-of-consciousness reminiscences on her youth and famous people she encountered growing up in LA. Her memory of what she had on during these episodes is remarkable. The book is a great Christmas gift, especially for that person you'd like to get into poetry who's not a fan. More on Khadijah is below.
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Khadijah Queen is the author of Conduit, Black Peculiar, and Fearful Beloved, and I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On. As part of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers, Litmus Press published her verse play Non-Sequitur in 2015. Individual poems and prose appear in The American Poetry Review, Fence, Tin House, Buzzfeed, Hyperallergic, Gulf Coast, and widely elsewhere. Queen is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of Colorado in Boulder, and serves as core faculty in poetry for the Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing at Regis University.
http://calendar.prattlibrary.org/even...
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Khadijah Queen is the author of Conduit, Black Peculiar, and Fearful Beloved, and I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On. As part of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers, Litmus Press published her verse play Non-Sequitur in 2015. Individual poems and prose appear in The American Poetry Review, Fence, Tin House, Buzzfeed, Hyperallergic, Gulf Coast, and widely elsewhere. Queen is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of Colorado in Boulder, and serves as core faculty in poetry for the Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing at Regis University.
http://calendar.prattlibrary.org/even...
Hot Boy Fall? Busboys and Poets, PEN/Faulkner Writers-in-Schools, Cave Canem Reading
Work's been crazy so I'm way behind on my updates over here. On October 22, I stood in for the gracious and thoughtful María Fernanda as feature at the 14th & K Busboys and Poets in DC. Some coworkers were sweet enough to come out and I got to meet Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez (COCONUT CURLS Y CAFE CON LECHE) who was a cool host and who I will forever remember as one of the major figures in peer pressuring me to get on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ctwriter1/, btw)! I read from LILIES IN THE VALLEY and from my new collection IN MY FEELINS.
On November 25th I had the pleasure of visiting DC's Takoma Education Campus as a participating writer in the PEN/Faulkner Writers-In-Schools program for the first time at Takoma Education Campus in DC. These middle school kids, about 60 or so, were so sweet but they're not shy about asking tough questions. (For example, the "n-word" is in my LILIES, as in the title poem "Lilies In The Valley," and I was asked why I'd used that word-had to explain the context.) It was good for me to get in front of a class for the first time since my short-lived stint at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in 2011 and shake off a lot of rust. And I've never had the opportunity to sign so many books! I have to thank my poetry brothers Alan King and Derrick Weston Brown for insisting on the idea and Alan for giving them my info.
Finally, on December 1 I had the pleasure of reading with my Cave Canem family on a rainy Baltimore day at the Pratt Library, Dec. 1. The event was hosted by Reggie Harris of Poets House. Kyle Dargan, director of the MFA Creating Writing program at American University was the featured reader, but graciously shared his honorarium with the rest of us, including Abdul Ali, Teri Cross Davis, Alan King, Saida Agostini, and Hayes Davis. Steven Leyva of the University of Baltimore was also in attendance. This was my second year in a row participating, and it made think that I need to get about the business of getting some new work done every year if I want to participate-now that I'm so close to Baltimore by way of living in the DMV, I feel obligated to have new material when I raise my hand for these going forward...
More to come soon! I'll be reading in DC at the American Poetry Museum on Feb. 2 with fellow AU alum Steve Castro and Jane Alberdeston, at The New School with Xandria Phillips and James Cagney (Cave Canem reading), and at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on April 12. I'll post about those more as they approach.
On November 25th I had the pleasure of visiting DC's Takoma Education Campus as a participating writer in the PEN/Faulkner Writers-In-Schools program for the first time at Takoma Education Campus in DC. These middle school kids, about 60 or so, were so sweet but they're not shy about asking tough questions. (For example, the "n-word" is in my LILIES, as in the title poem "Lilies In The Valley," and I was asked why I'd used that word-had to explain the context.) It was good for me to get in front of a class for the first time since my short-lived stint at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in 2011 and shake off a lot of rust. And I've never had the opportunity to sign so many books! I have to thank my poetry brothers Alan King and Derrick Weston Brown for insisting on the idea and Alan for giving them my info.
Finally, on December 1 I had the pleasure of reading with my Cave Canem family on a rainy Baltimore day at the Pratt Library, Dec. 1. The event was hosted by Reggie Harris of Poets House. Kyle Dargan, director of the MFA Creating Writing program at American University was the featured reader, but graciously shared his honorarium with the rest of us, including Abdul Ali, Teri Cross Davis, Alan King, Saida Agostini, and Hayes Davis. Steven Leyva of the University of Baltimore was also in attendance. This was my second year in a row participating, and it made think that I need to get about the business of getting some new work done every year if I want to participate-now that I'm so close to Baltimore by way of living in the DMV, I feel obligated to have new material when I raise my hand for these going forward...
More to come soon! I'll be reading in DC at the American Poetry Museum on Feb. 2 with fellow AU alum Steve Castro and Jane Alberdeston, at The New School with Xandria Phillips and James Cagney (Cave Canem reading), and at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on April 12. I'll post about those more as they approach.
Feb. 2 Reading at the American Poetry Museum, Washington, DC
On Sunday Feb. 2, I'll be reading at the American Poetry Museum with fellow American University MFA program graduate Steve Castro and fellow Cave Canem fellow/professor/poet Jane Alberdeston from 3-5 pm. This is my first event since IN MY FEELINS came out and I'm grateful to Samuel Miranda and Fred Joiner for their generosity in hosting us. (We'll be sure to get y'all out if you're catching the Super Bowl as I am.)
The APM's Center for Poetic Thought is located at 716 Monroe St. NE, Studio #25 in NE Washington D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood. Check out the links below for author info and books or contact me personally at cedricLtillman@gmail.com.
Jane Alberdeston
Blue Whale Phenomena
Lilies in the Valley
In My Feelins
The APM's Center for Poetic Thought is located at 716 Monroe St. NE, Studio #25 in NE Washington D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood. Check out the links below for author info and books or contact me personally at cedricLtillman@gmail.com.
Jane Alberdeston
Blue Whale Phenomena
Lilies in the Valley
In My Feelins
Feb. 20 Reading at The New School, NYC
Hey all-
I'll be in NYC for a hot minute reading from FEELINS. Come through!
2/20, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street
New York
Come celebrate the recent publications of new work by three brilliant Cave Canem poets. Recipient of the 2019 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland, James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias in The Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press, 2019), a debut collection of which poet Connie Post says, “There is much to behold in this masterful book….” Poet and visual artist Xandria Phillips‘ debut collection, HULL (Nightboat Books, 2019), is praised by poet Thylias Moss for being “brilliantly executed. Everything precise. Xandria Phillips is no ordinary architect.” Cedric Tillman is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, IN MY FEELINS (Word Poetry, 2020), praised by author Alan Michael Parker for holding “fabulous poems of candor and jump, muscle and song.” Free and open to the public. Refreshments served. Co-sponsored with The New School Creative Writing Program.
James Cagney is a poet from Oakland, California. He has appeared at venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, including Vancouver, Chicago, and Mumbai. James’ first book, Black Steel Magnolias in The Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press, 2019), is the winner of the 2019 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. It is available now from NomadicPress.org More of James’ writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog.
Xandria Phillips is a poet and visual artist from rural Ohio. Xandria has received fellowships from Oberlin College, Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, where they are the First Wave Poetry Fellow. Their poetry has been featured in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Poets.Org, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Their first book, HULL was published by Nightboat Books in 2019.
Cedric Tillman holds a BA in English from UNC Charlotte and graduated from American University’s Creative Writing MFA program. He is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and a former Nation Magazine (now Boston Review) “Discovery” contest semifinalist. Cedric’s poems appear in several publications including Pleaides, Rove, The Manhattanville Review, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, Iodine Poetry Journal and Home Is Where: an anthology of African American Poets from the Carolinas. Between 2016 and 2018, his second collection, IN MY FEELINS (Word Poetry, 2020), received semifinalist recognition in contests sponsored by Saturnalia Books, Cleveland State University, and Fresno State University; and finalist recognition from Press 53, Pleiades and the University of Akron. In 2017, his poem “the flag” received Special Mention recognition for the Pushcart Foundation’s Pushcart Prize. His debut collection, entitled Lilies in the Valley, was published by Willow Books in 2013. Cedric hails from Lilesville and Charlotte, NC. He currently lives in northern Virginia.
I'll be in NYC for a hot minute reading from FEELINS. Come through!
2/20, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street
New York
Come celebrate the recent publications of new work by three brilliant Cave Canem poets. Recipient of the 2019 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland, James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias in The Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press, 2019), a debut collection of which poet Connie Post says, “There is much to behold in this masterful book….” Poet and visual artist Xandria Phillips‘ debut collection, HULL (Nightboat Books, 2019), is praised by poet Thylias Moss for being “brilliantly executed. Everything precise. Xandria Phillips is no ordinary architect.” Cedric Tillman is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, IN MY FEELINS (Word Poetry, 2020), praised by author Alan Michael Parker for holding “fabulous poems of candor and jump, muscle and song.” Free and open to the public. Refreshments served. Co-sponsored with The New School Creative Writing Program.
James Cagney is a poet from Oakland, California. He has appeared at venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, including Vancouver, Chicago, and Mumbai. James’ first book, Black Steel Magnolias in The Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press, 2019), is the winner of the 2019 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. It is available now from NomadicPress.org More of James’ writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog.
Xandria Phillips is a poet and visual artist from rural Ohio. Xandria has received fellowships from Oberlin College, Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, where they are the First Wave Poetry Fellow. Their poetry has been featured in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Poets.Org, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Their first book, HULL was published by Nightboat Books in 2019.
Cedric Tillman holds a BA in English from UNC Charlotte and graduated from American University’s Creative Writing MFA program. He is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and a former Nation Magazine (now Boston Review) “Discovery” contest semifinalist. Cedric’s poems appear in several publications including Pleaides, Rove, The Manhattanville Review, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, Iodine Poetry Journal and Home Is Where: an anthology of African American Poets from the Carolinas. Between 2016 and 2018, his second collection, IN MY FEELINS (Word Poetry, 2020), received semifinalist recognition in contests sponsored by Saturnalia Books, Cleveland State University, and Fresno State University; and finalist recognition from Press 53, Pleiades and the University of Akron. In 2017, his poem “the flag” received Special Mention recognition for the Pushcart Foundation’s Pushcart Prize. His debut collection, entitled Lilies in the Valley, was published by Willow Books in 2013. Cedric hails from Lilesville and Charlotte, NC. He currently lives in northern Virginia.
CarolinaPoets reading, Feb. 10, 2022, with Fred Joiner and Tyree Daye
On Feb. 10, I'll be sharing the CarolinaPoets (online) stage with poets Fred Joiner & Tyree Daye. This will be my second CarolinaPoets reading with Tyree, author of River Hymns & Cardinal. Fred is an old friend from my DC days at American U. and we have a host of mutual friends-I'm looking forward reading with him for the first time. The reading will be on Facebook and simulcast on YouTube.
