Thursday, October 15, 6:00-7:30 pm
Calabar Imports Harlem
2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134th
St.)
Harlem, NY 10030
JP Howard, aka Juliet P. Howard will read and dicuss poetry from her debut collection, SAY/MIRROR
(The Operating System, 2015) and will present a mini-exhibit of some of vintage
1940s-1950s photos of her mother, one of the first black high-fashion models.
JP is a Cave Canem
graduate fellow and , author of SAY/MIRROR, a debut poetry collection published
by The Operating currator of Women
Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon (WWBPS), a forum that celebrates a diverse array
of women poets and includes a large LGBTQ POC membership. She thrives on collaboration and community and
believes her salon has blossomed due to enormous support from community. She is an alum of the VONA/Voices Writers
Workshop, as well as a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging LGBT Voices Fellow, and
was a finalist in The Feminist Wire’s 2014 1st Poetry Contest. Her poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in The
Feminist Wire, Split this Rock, Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color,
Muzzle Magazine, Adrienne: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women, The Best American
Poetry Blog, MiPOesias, The Mom Egg, Talking Writing and Connotation Press. She holds an MFA in
Creative Writing from the City College of New York and a BA from Barnard
College. Join us for a great evening
with Juliet P. Howard!
Women Writers of the
Diaspora has a great lineup for the rest of the year: Mark your calendars for Eartha Watts-Hicks, November 5, Lorraine Currelley, November 19, Keisha-Gaye Anderson December 3, and Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, December 17.
Women Writers of the Diaspora is a reading/discussion series created and moderated by Dr. Celesti Colds Fechter, Exec.
Director of Education Success Services and Prof., Org. Behavior, King Graduate
School, New Rochelle. Women Writers of the Diaspora features poetry,
prose, memoir, essay, reportage, urban writing by African and African Diasporan
women.
The venue, Calabar Imports Harlem, is provided by Atim Otun, and the series is co-sponsored by Mosaic Literary Magazine.
The venue, Calabar Imports Harlem, is provided by Atim Otun, and the series is co-sponsored by Mosaic Literary Magazine.
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