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 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)
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ART Exhibit | THE EPHEMERAL AND THE SACRED SELF by Constance Y. White
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION NOW ON VIEW THE EPHEMERAL AND THE SACRED SELFattributes and affirmations of eight black women Dallas, Texas–BLACK AUGUST 2020 Constance Y. White presents an original body of work featuring hand-cut and glued (analog) collage with mixed media scrolls as couplets derived from personal interviews with seven different women. (The artist counted herself in…
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ART History | The Brazoria County 1619 Descendants Project
About the Project On June 19, 2020, Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site (VHP) in West Columbia received a grant from the 400 Years of African American History Commission in Washington, DC for a year-long project called The Brazoria County 1619 Descendants Project. The purpose of the project is to create a digital repository of at least 1,619 photographs, letters, recipes,…
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ART literary | THE SPIRIT OF BLACK AUGUST: Ready Poetry By Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott was a Caribbean poet, born in 1930 in Castries on the island of St. Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The Nobel Laureate transitioned in March 2017. Dark August by Derek WalcottSo much rain, so much life like the swollen skyof this black August. My sister, the sun,broods in her…
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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