Join us for O | Sessions: Black Listening on World Listening Day, Sunday, July 18, 2021
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My poem "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old" is featured today with the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day at https://t.co/sF2l3yXbJs! This month is curated by The R. Erica Doyle. So excited to be featured with this awesome group of poets & to read who's next!
On World Listening Day, July 18, Obsidian is unveiling a new series, O | Sessions, a new space unapologetically focused on illuminating Black presence and Black creative expression and imagination across the diaspora. Follow @obsidianlit for updates on the first O | Sessions!
Join us for the #cavecanem 25th Anniversary on June 19 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm “With love like black, our black” Building Our Homes. Myself, Joanne V. Gabbin, and Tyehimba Jess in conversation. @FuriousFlowerPC@TyehimbaJess https://t.co/OL5KrHPs7n #blackpoets
Extended Submission Deadline!
There's still time to submit creative works for Obsidian's Special Issue: Heirloom: Preserving HBCU Futures. The deadline for creative works has been extended to March 22, 2021. For more information, visit: https://t.co/ffJATNpQgE
Tune in to Professor Tricia Rose and Dr. Cornel West talking about the significance of Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks on the 62nd anniversary of Broadway premiere (March 11, 1959) of #ARaisinintheSun https://t.co/S5BUAppBZx
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Happy IWD! This year, the UN theme for International Women’s Day is “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”, celebrating the work of women and girls in this struggle. #choosetochallenge Source: https://t.co/q36qdKmxOV #iwd#iwd2021
Tochi Onyebuchi's Riot Baby, Danez Smith's Homie, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths's Seeing the Body were all nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Congratulations! Source: NAACP Image Awards https://t.co/VoMdip7iC9 #ObsidianCommunity#ObsidianContributors
Octavia E Butler is a pioneer of #sciencefiction & #afrofuturism. She denied the white, cis-male, heteronormative conventions of the genre, creating works that were wholly her own. She created new futures through #fiction. We’re celebrating her life & legacy. #ObsidianCommunity
More from the archives "self portrait with sorrow song" from Amnesiac: Poems (2010) Have a listen at my website https://t.co/MCPjVYlbTb or https://t.co/njZAHQOTyD
#blackfuturesmonth
Watching a video of Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, discussing how art examines and redefines culture. As relevant now as when she first recorded this talk in 2009. https://t.co/SjJue0NNpr #blackfutures#blackhistorymonth#inspiration#thelmagolden