NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Get a free Official National Poetry Month Poster. Featuring artwork by Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton.
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ART Event | The Betsy Hotel presents the 9th Annual Overture to Overtown Festival
The Betsy Hotel presents the 9th Annual Overture to Overtown Festival (this time, Virtual!). Sponsored by The Betsy Hotel and FIU MBUS. Curated by Carole Ann Taylor and Deborah Briggs. Journey through the history of Overtown, a four-part experience that includes music, poetry, scholarship, and imagery. The Betsy’s Overture to Overtown 2020 online festival program will feature…
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Art Conference | Registration Now Open Collective Protest & Rebellion: A Black Study Intensive
Read Conference Information & Register For Free: Collective Protest & Rebellion: A Black Study Intensive
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ART Resources | Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists in need (COVID-19). Apply Today!
From Artist Relief: To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States. Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19; serve as an ongoing…
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ART Activity | BLACK AUGUST, WRITE A HAIKU
WRITE A HAIKU Use the home that August Wilson lived in as a child as inspiration to complete the following literary activity. A haiku is a 3 line, 17 syllable poem; 5 syllables (1st line), 7 syllables (2nd line), 5 syllables (3rd line) Autumn deepens . . .What does my neighbor doto survive? By Richard…
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ART Literary |SCHOMBURG CENTER LITERARY FESTIVAL: The Virtual Edition
Free Registration Now Open! VIEW THE COMPLETE FALL 2020 SCHEDULE FOR THE LITERARY FESTIVAL PRE-FESTIVAL EVENT! Lift Every Voice: 250 Years of African American Poetic Traditions, Featuring Kevin Young SEPT 17 @ 6:30 PM (ET)
Cover Image Courtesy, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1893). Phillis Wheatley Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7329-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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