TONGUES AFIRE READING SERIES
\nfeaturing Cheryl Boyce Taylor
\naccompanied by Tongues Afire participants Lolan Sevilla, Charan Morris, Gail Dottin, and Poonam Srivastava<\/p>\n
Thursday November 5, 2009
\n6:30-8:30pm
\nat the Audre Lorde Project (ALP)
\n85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY (see directions below)<\/p>\n
Please join us for the inaugural event of our fall reading series that features Tongues Afire participants reading with established writers and cultural activists!<\/p>\n
This event is FREE<\/strong> and open to the public.<\/p>\n Cheryl Boyce-Taylor<\/strong> – Born in Trinidad and raised in New York City, Cheryl Boyce Taylor is the author of three collections of poetry, Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, <\/em>and Convincing the Body<\/em>.\u00a0 She holds Master’s Degrees in both Education and Social Work, and has led writing residences for Urban WordNYC, Poets House, Poets & Writers and The New York Public Library.\u00a0 Her texts Water and Redemption <\/em>have been commissioned through Duke University, Jacob’s Pillow and the National Endowment for the Arts, for Ronald K. Brown\/Evidence Dance Company.<\/p>\n The Tongues Afire Reading Series is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) and the Audre Lorde Project.<\/p>\n Tongues Afire is a free creative writing workshop for Queer Women, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color, facilitated by R. Erica Doyle, that meets weekly in the fall at ALP.<\/p>\n Future Events in the Tongues Afire Reading Series at ALP, all 6:30-8:30:<\/p>\n Thursday, November 19th:<\/strong> featuring Juanita Diaz-Cotto (Juanita Ramos), SINISTER WISDOM 74: Latina Lesbians (ed.), Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice, Companeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology) (ed.), <\/em>and Gender Ethnicity and the State: Latino and Latina Prison Politics.<\/em><\/p>\n Thursday, December 10th:<\/strong> featuring Cheryl Clarke, author of Humid Pitch, Living as A Lesbian, Experimental Love, Narrative:Poems in the Tradition of Black Women, The Days of Good Looks, and After Mecca: Women Poets <\/em>and the Black Arts Movement.<\/em><\/p>\n Wednesday, December 16th:<\/strong> Tongues Afire 4: 2009 Participant Reading:\u00a0 Join us to celebrate the conclusion of the Fall 2009 TA workhop.<\/p>\n Directions<\/strong> C train to Lafayette Avenue; G train to Fulton Street; 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, M, N, R to Atlantic Avenue\/Pacific Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TONGUES AFIRE READING SERIES featuring Cheryl Boyce Taylor accompanied by Tongues Afire participants Lolan Sevilla, Charan Morris, Gail Dottin, and Poonam Srivastava Thursday November 5, 2009 6:30-8:30pm at the Audre Lorde Project (ALP) 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY (see directions below) Please join us for the inaugural event of our fall reading series that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMmJz-b6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46,"url":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=46","url_meta":{"origin":688,"position":0},"title":"Tongues Afire Reading – NYC","author":"","date":"December 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Tongues Afire Creative Writing Workshop for Queer Women, Trans Women and Gender Non Conforming Women of Color FINAL WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT READING Thursday, December 7 7 pm \u2013 9 pm FREE Audre Lorde Project** 85 South Oxford Street Brooklyn, NY 11217 PARTICIPANTS: R. 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\nAudre Lorde Project
\n85 South Oxford St between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street
\nBrooklyn, NY 11217<\/p>\n