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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...
