JACQUELINE BISHOP - Thursday, February 18, 2016

I hope you have your calendars marked for Thursday, February 18 when multi-talented photographer-painter-writer JACQUELINE BISHOP will be the featured author in the next reading/discussion in the WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA series. 

When:  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2016, 6:00pm

Where: CALABAR IMPORTS HARLEM (corner of 134th St. & Frederick Douglass Blvd.)

JACQUELINE BISHOP, a New York University master teacher, is the author of The River's Song, Snapshots from Istanbul, Fauna, My Mother Who is Me: Life Stories of Jamaican Women in New York, and Writers Who Paint, Painters Who Write.  

Bishop's latest book, The Gymnast and Other Positions was released in January 2016.  Her work in the visual arts has been exhibited in North America, North Africa, and Europe, and she is the creator of the Female Sexual Desire Project, which includes textile, video, and audio art. 

This promises to be a great reading and wide-ranging discussion, so be sure to come out and meet JACQUELINE BISHOP!

The WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA series, created and hosted by CELESTI COLDS FECHTER, PH.D., 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 Annette Otun, and the series is co-sponsored by Mosaic Literary Magazine.

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