Happy New Year! May this year bring peace, happiness, and creativity!
You are invited from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET, the last Saturday of the month, for our next installment of Brownstone Poets with our rockstar features:
JP Howard
Cynthia Manick
Tantra-Zawadi
Plus a limited (3-minute) open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print and pays for our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Please follow directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early.
Please follow these instructions:
Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO
(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)
Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:
Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Looking forward to seeing you at our October edition! For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:
Bios:
JP Howard is a poet, educator, literary activist, curator, and community builder. JP is a current Learn with Lambda Literary workshop facilitator and was the Spring 2023 Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence. Her debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*), Praise This Complicated Herstory: Legacy, Healing & Revolutionary Poems (Harlequin Creature) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians–We Are the Revolution! JP has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, VONA, Lambda Literary Foundation, and Brooklyn Arts Council. She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. Her poetry is widely anthologized. http://www.jp-howard.com.
Cynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad-HarperCollins, 2023), which received 5 stars from Roxane Gay and was selected as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2023; editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry; winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry; and author of Blue Hallelujahs. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and MacDowell among other foundations. Manick’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, and other outlets. She lives in New York but travels widely for poetry.
Tantra-zawadi, an award-winning, Brooklyn-born, international performance poet and recording artist, is a 2020 Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee! She is the author of three books of poetry: alifepoeminprogress (Chuma Spirit Books); Gathered at Her Sky and Bubbles: One Conscious Breath (Poets Wear Prada). A passionate educator and instigator, she has collaborated with The Senegal-America Project, Dr. Muzvare Betty Makoni’s Girl Child Network Worldwide, and Black Art in America. To learn more, or to hear her latest house music releases, please visit and follow her Instagram profile, @tantrazawadi.
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