Sundays @...Branded Saloon
A reading series presented by Bold As Love Magazine
Writers and Readers and Beer! Oh My!
Join us at our new location for Bold As Love Magazine's Brooklyn reading series! Inspirational, intriguing and provocative work from accomplished writers of color across a wide range of genres, all part of a progressive literary tradition. Curated by Bold As Love's books editor Bridgett M. Davis.
Sundays @...Branded Saloon
Come celebrate the National Poetry Month edition of our series with:
- Keisha-Gaye Anderson
- LeConte Dill
- Roberto Carlos Garcia
- Ysabel Y. Gonzalez
Donation kindly requested. Copies of Gathering the Waters will be available for sale.
Sunday, Apr 26, 2015, 04:30 PM
603 Vanderbilt Avenue, BK, NY 11238, United States
Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Keisha-Gaye Anderson is a poet, author, and journalist whose new poetry book, Gathering the Waters, was released in December 2014. In 2013, she participated in the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop at Brown University. She 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. Anderson 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; and the Killens Review of Arts and Letters, to name only a few. More info: keishagaye.com
LeConté Dill
LeConté Dill was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, and has lived in Brooklyn for the past two years. She holds degrees from Spelman College, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. A public health scholactivist by day, LeConté has been writing poetry and fiction since elementary school. She has participated in the VONA/Voices Writing Workshops, as well as the Cave Canem workshops, . LeConté’s work has been featured in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Cal Literature and Arts Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Los Angeles Magazine, and the upcoming issue of The Wide Shore. In 2011, she co-authored, co-edited, and co-published a poetry anthology with a group of teens from Oakland, California, entitled Y U Gotta Call It Ghetto?. Currently, LeConté is an Assistant Professor at the SUNY Downstate School of Public Health, in Brooklyn. She is passionate about the power of writing for healing, empowerment, and social justice.
Roberto Carlos Garcia
Roberto Carlos Garcia's published works include the chapbook amores gitano (gypsy loves) Červená Barva Press 2013, his poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Entropy, PLUCK!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, The Rumpus, 5 AM Magazine, Wilderness House, Connotation Press- An Online Artifact, Poets/Artists, Levure Litteraire, and others.
A native New Yorker, Roberto holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry Translation from Drew University and is Instructor of English at Union County College.
His website is www.robertocarlosgarcia.tumblr.com
Ysabel Y. Gonzalez
New Jersey native Ysabel Y. Gonzalez is also known for her performance poetry under the alias Ancestral Poetisa. She received her BA from Rutgers University and is currently an MFA in Poetry candidate at Drew University. Ysabel works for the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and is also a VONA alumna. She has most recently been published in phati’tude Literary Magazine, Kalyani, Huizache, Acentos Review, Waxwing Literary Journal and forthcoming in It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. You may find more of her poems and recorded performances at www.ysabelgonzalez.com.
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