Sundays @. . .The Sackett
a reading series presented by Bold As Love Magazine
Writers and Readers and Beer! Oh my!
Sundays @. . .The Sackett: Mothers Write Now
Donation kindly requested.
Sunday, May 19, 2013, 03:30 PM
661 Sackett Street, Brooklyn, NY
Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Keisha-Gaye Anderson is a poet, author, and journalist who was short listed for the Small Axe literary competition in 2010 and was also awarded a fellowship by the North Country Institute for Writers of Color. She is a is a founding poet with Poets for Ayiti. Proceeds from their 2010 poetry chapbook, For the Crowns of Your Heads, has helped to rebuild a Port-au-Prince library razed during the earthquake. Her work has appeared in Poems on the Road to Peace; Small Axe Salon; the Killens Review of Arts and Letters; Caribbean in Transit Arts Journal and The Mom Egg, among others.
Catherine McKinley
Catherine McKinley, a former Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, is the author of the forthcoming "The African Lookbook: A Social and Design History in 1,000 Moments in Style" (Bloomsbury, 2015); She is also the author of "Indigo: In Search of the Color that Seduced the World"; "The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts," a memoir; and the anthology "Afrekete." Her articles on African fashion have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Hand/Eye, and Sarah Lawrence Magazine. She is a M.A. Candidate at New York University, where she studies Costume and Fashion History and 20th Century Photography with a special interest in African studio images.
Eisa Nefertari Ulen
Eisa Nefertari Ulen is the author of “Crystelle Mourning,” a novel described by The Washington Post as “a call for healing in the African American community from generations of hurt and neglect.” She’s received several writing awards, including a Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center Fellowship for Young African American Fiction Writers, a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, and a National Association of Black Journalists Award. A founding member of RingShout: A Place for Black Literature, she contributes to The Washington Post, Ms., The Huffington Post, Essence and TheRoot.com, among others.
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