Talk — Holding Forgotten Readers Close
Where: St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
131 E. 10th St.
212-674-6377 Price: $8
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Four Black Women Reflect on African-American Literary Community
Black Scholar-Librarians on Elizabeth McHenry’s Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (Duke University Press, 2002).
Olaronke Akinmowo is a Bed-Stuy born visual artist, cultural scholar, yoga teacher, set decorator, and mom. In 2015 she started The Free Black Women’s Library, an interactive roving biblio-installation that holds a collection of 900 books written by Black women. This social art project also features performances, workshops, readings, film screenings, and critical conversations.
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves is an artist chiefly concerned with postcolonial ethnobotany working in mediums of scholarship, performance, corporeal wisdom, archival gesture, and language. Greaves has been published in The Black Earth Institute’s About Place Journal, The Recluse, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and No, Dear. In 2017 Belladonna* published her first chaplet — Close Reading As Forestry.
Lyric Hunter is a writer from New York City. Her chapbooks include Motherwort and Swallower. Her work has also appeared in Pelt Vol. 4: Feminist Temporalities, The Felt, Poems by Sunday, Belleville Park Pages, and Arava Review.
Jhani Miller is an award winning scholar hailing from the University of Illinois School of Information Science. Her work relates to black femme identity, emotional health, and social influence. When she isn’t advocating for historically marginalized groups in libraries, she’s an aerial performer, lo-fi photographer, and geek culture researcher. You can find her at the Brooklyn Public Library where she is the Library Information Supervisor.
General admission: $8
Students/Seniors: $7
Members: $5 or free
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