What if all the creative people we knew were doing what they do in public, all at the same time? The possibility is too electrifying to ignore. Let's bring the arts to the people in unexpected places with the intention of connecting positively, to use the arts to energize the public sphere. Join the movement.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Interview
Khadijah & Samantha will be talking about SPACE with Rafael FJ Alvarado on Friday 4/30 at 11am EST. Listen here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword
Samantha Thornhill is a poet and a rising voice in the world of words. Her performance poem, "Little Odetta," inspired by the late folk legend, is forthcoming from Scholastic Press in the form of a picture book. Also, her young adult novel "Seventeen Seasons" will soon be published by Penguin Books. She lives in Brooklyn.
Visual artist and writer Khadijah Queen is the author of a poetry collection, Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic Books 2008). Individual poems appear or are forthcoming in jubilat, InPosse Review, Drunken Boat, and Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and Squaw Valley Community of Writers, her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times. She currently lives in Florida and curates the reading series Courting Risk.
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