Brownstone Poets on Zoom welcomes another year of poetry:
Saturday, January 28 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST
Our January features are:
Ketriana Yvonnne
Christine Weimer
DFaye Anderson
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
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. https://fb.me/e/2yAD2iU8S
Looking forward to seeing you at our January reading!
For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:
Bios:
Ketriana Yvonne is a poet and author of Sequin Soul Poetry from the Spirit. She is the host and producer of the Brooklyn Free Speech, First Amendment Award Winning Show The Ketriana Yvonne Show. Ketriana Yvonne has featured for the Ft Green Park Conservancy Fundraiser “The Fling” and the Ft. Greene Park Conservancy Poetry Festival. She is a Ft. Greene Member of the Intergenerational Community Arts Council and served as panelist for the 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council Music Grants. Ketriana featured for The Share with the Myrtle Ave Partnership and has been featured on podcasts and BRIC TV. She was the winner of the 2019 TrulyBrooklyn.com contest. “Dear Brooklyn,” which has become her signature poem. She is a member of the Society of Old Brooklynites. She writes as Spiritwriter on Allpoetry.com.com and was featured in their anthology Circular Whispers. She has led virtual poetry workshops for New York Writers Coalition and her own group “The Sequin Soul Spirit Writing Group” and hosts Janeswalk.org virtual writing workshops. Ketriana Yvonne is a poet writing for change and to be an inspiration to the world. She is Ketrianabelove on Twitter and Instagram.
Christine Weimer is an award-winning author, publisher, creative copywriter, and spoken-word artist from Queens, New York. She is honing all the guts and glory of motherhood while promoting and supporting women writers as the Editor-in-Chief of Our Galaxy Publishing.
Christine is the author of three poetry collections; Tainted Lionheart, which won the Gold Medal Poetry Award for Readers’ Favorite 2021, I Got to Know Nature, and Claiming the Throne. Her most recent work is published in The Order of Us and Venus Rising anthologies and Sunflower Station Press literary magazine. She is also the Publishing Advisor for Gearing Towards Engineering Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of STEM education to today’s youth.
Born in Bronzeville, Chicago, DFaye Anderson now calls Brooklyn home. A theater artist, former educator, and filmmaker, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from CUNY and has performed her poetry and short fiction in parks, bars, schools, theaters, and parlors across New York State. The PotLuck Poets, a collective she formed in 2019, met the challenge of isolation from COVID by presenting free shows via Zoom. She is an AUDELCO nominee in directing, and her work is published in the anthology NOMMO: A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago (1967-1987) and MERGE Literary magazine.
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