Women Writers of the Diaspora
CHERYL BOYCE-TAYLOR
Thursday, October 1, 6:00-7:30 pm
Calabar Imports Harlem
2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134th
St.)
Harlem, NY 10030
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the Founder of The Calypso Muse Poetry Series. A poet and
teaching artist, she creates community through poetry. Trinidad-born and
Queens-bred, Cheryl Boyce Taylor is a poet, visual and teaching artist. The
author of two collections of poetry, Raw
Air and Night When Moon Follows,
and recipient of the Partners in Writing Grant, Boyce-Taylor served as Poet in
Residence during the 2003 season at the Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center
in Brooklyn. Her poems have been anthologized in various publications
including, including Def Poetry Jam's Bum
Rush The Page, Poetry Nation, Rogue's Scholar, In Defense of Mumia, Bloom,
Catch the Fire, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, and upcoming
in 2004 in The Paterson Literary Review,
and Bullets and Butterflies.
Boyce-Taylor holds Masters degrees in both Education, and Social Work, and is
in private practice as a writing release and personal self care therapist.
Women Writers of the Diaspora, is a 13-year old reading/discussion series created and moderated by Dr. Celesti Colds Fechter, Prof. of Org. Behavior at King Graduate School in New Rochelle, NY, and Owner/Exec.
Director of Education Success Services, LLC. The series provides a forum for writing--prose, poetry, memoir, reportage, essay, urban--by and about women of African and African Diasporan descent.
The venue, Calabar Imports Harlem, is provided by Atim Otun, and the series is co-sponsored by Mosaic Literary Magazine.
Women Writers of the Diaspora has a great lineup for the rest of the year: Mark your calendars for JP Howard, October 15; Eartha Watts-Hicks, November 5; Lorraine Currelley, November 19;Keisha-Gaye Anderson December 3; and Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, December 17.
The venue, Calabar Imports Harlem, is provided by Atim Otun, and the series is co-sponsored by Mosaic Literary Magazine.
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