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October 11, 2024: Reading with DeShara Suggs-Joe and Sasha Banks
This Friday at 7 p.m. I'll be reading with these talented artists at VisArt Video, 3104 Eastway Drive, Charlotte, N.C. I've been meaning to get by VisArt for a while-I've missed some other readings and events I'd hoped to check out there, so this'll be my first time at the venue. Please stop by if you're in the area!
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DeShara is a queer, Black poet and visual artist. She co-founded Daughter’s Tongue (an all-women writing collective), worked as the Creative Director of Workshops at Winter Tangerine, and is a former member of the Youth Speaks Collective. She received her MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts and fellowships from Callaloo, the Poetry Incubator, and Pink Door. In 2021, she was nominated for “Best of the Net.” She has published poems in Apogee Lit, Voicemail Poems, Tinderbox Journal, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. She has also been featured on Button Poetry’s YouTube platform and has performed on Spotify, Yahoo, and Pinterest.
SASHA BANKS is a Pushcart nominated poet and filmmaker whose work has been published or is forthcoming in THE ATLANTIC, VANITY FAIR, PBS NEWSHOUR, and others. She received her MFA at Pratt Institute. Banks is a 2019 Rhode Island Writers’ Colony Fellow and the creator of Poets for Ferguson. She is the author of america, MINE, writer and director of Oh, Country, and founder of Top Femme Productions.
Cedric Tillman received 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 semifinalist in The Nation magazine's Discovery contest. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including RHINO, Pleiades, Barzakh, Rove, The Manhattanville Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, The Florida Review, and Kakalak, among others. 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. After receiving semifinalist and finalist recognition in the University of Akron, Cleveland State University, and Press 53 poetry prizes among others, IN MY FEELINS was published by WordTech Poetry in 2020. Cedric lives in Charlotte.
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DeShara is a queer, Black poet and visual artist. She co-founded Daughter’s Tongue (an all-women writing collective), worked as the Creative Director of Workshops at Winter Tangerine, and is a former member of the Youth Speaks Collective. She received her MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts and fellowships from Callaloo, the Poetry Incubator, and Pink Door. In 2021, she was nominated for “Best of the Net.” She has published poems in Apogee Lit, Voicemail Poems, Tinderbox Journal, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. She has also been featured on Button Poetry’s YouTube platform and has performed on Spotify, Yahoo, and Pinterest.
SASHA BANKS is a Pushcart nominated poet and filmmaker whose work has been published or is forthcoming in THE ATLANTIC, VANITY FAIR, PBS NEWSHOUR, and others. She received her MFA at Pratt Institute. Banks is a 2019 Rhode Island Writers’ Colony Fellow and the creator of Poets for Ferguson. She is the author of america, MINE, writer and director of Oh, Country, and founder of Top Femme Productions.
Cedric Tillman received 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 semifinalist in The Nation magazine's Discovery contest. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including RHINO, Pleiades, Barzakh, Rove, The Manhattanville Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, The Florida Review, and Kakalak, among others. 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. After receiving semifinalist and finalist recognition in the University of Akron, Cleveland State University, and Press 53 poetry prizes among others, IN MY FEELINS was published by WordTech Poetry in 2020. Cedric lives in Charlotte.
