AMBER ATIYA

Thursday, March 3, 2016, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Calabar Imports Harlem

2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (corner of 134^th St.)

Harlem, New York 10030

AMBER ATIYA is the Brooklyn-born author of the chapbook the fierce bums of doo-wop (Argos Books, 2014).  Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, Bone Bouquet, Boston Review, Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, and elsewhere.  She was a 2012 Poets House Fellow; her poems were selected for Best of the Net 2014 and she was a 2015 Best New Poets nominee.  Amber’s  work has also been featured on the Poetry Foundation’s radio and podcast series PoetryNow.

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.  

The series features poetry, prose, memoir, essay, reportage, urban writing by African and African diasporan women. Past readers include Opal Palmer Adisa, Keisha-Gaye Anderson, Jacqueline Bishop, Pamela Booker, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Merle Collins, Lorraine Currelley, Carole Boyce Davies, Bridget Davis, LaTasha Diggs, Kim Coleman Foote, Ifeona Fulani, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Monica Hand, Eartha Watts Hicks, J.P. Howard, Linda Susan Jackson,  Pamela Jackson, Jacqueline Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Tayari Jones, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Nigeria Lockley, Diana McCaulay, Rosalind McLymont, Pam Mordecai, Elizabeth Nunez, Ebele Oseye, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Cecily Rodway, Gammy Singer, Danyel Smith, Patricia Smith, Martha Southgate, Eisa Ulen, and Tiphanie Yanique.

Be sure to mark your calendar for Yvette Louis, Mar 17; Farah Jasmine Griffin, Apr 21; Stephanie Renee Payne, May 5; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, May 19; Cynthia Manick, June 9; and Celeste Rita Baker, June  23.

The venue, Calabar Imports Harlem, is generously provided by Atim Otun, and the series is co-sponsored by Mosaic Literary Magazine.   

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