Black Fire -- This Time's Literary Candle Has Been Lit
Sat, Jun 04
|on Zoom
Black Fire--This Time's literary candle has been Lit! celebrating twenty-first century Black self-determination.
Time & Location
Jun 04, 2022, 4:00 PM PDT
on Zoom
About the Event
Black Fire--This Time's literary candle has been Lit! Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, and Aneb Kgositsile powerful voices in the Black Arts Movement are joined by dynamic voices of social change Michael Warr and Raymond Nat Turner and a new generation of writers like Connie Owens Patton examining twenty-first century Black self-determination.
Connie (Owens) Patton is a poet and spoken word artist. Her work has been published in Black Fire-This Time Volume I, African Voices, Writing for Our Lives, Lucky Jefferson’s Zine, Awake., Issue I and Covid, Isolation and Hope: Artists Respond to the Pandemic. In 2020, her poem “Lie to Me” was featured on Heard/Word Galleyway, an on-line audio. She is currently working on a book of poetry entitled Through a Tightly Coiled Lens.
Michael Warr’s literary honors include a 2021 San Francisco Arts Commission Artist Award and the 2020 Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the Poetry…