Poetry Partnership elevates voices of Black poets
By Diana Velasquez, Senior Staff Writer
June 16, 2020
The reading featured 10 poets reading their work — Joss Green, Diarra Imani, Dani Janae, Medina Jackson, Maria Kent, Joy KMT, Crystal Massie, Tresa Murphy Green, Christina Springer and Jahqwahn Watson. Much of the subject matter revolved around themes of womanhood, motherhood, Black ancestry and what it means to be Black today in the United States.
Sonia Sanchez and Marilyn Nelson talk black poetry
By Charlie Taylor, Staff Writer
November 19, 2019
Sonia Sanchez and fellow poet Marilyn Nelson visited the Carnegie Lecture Hall for a reading, which was followed by a conversation about their work, in an event hosted by Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
CAAPP celebrates black female writers from Pittsburgh and beyond
By Emily Wolfe, Contributing Editor
June 18, 2019
Nicole Sealey’s editors once convinced her to remove the last line of a poem before she published it. The poem, “Candelabra With Heads,” meditated on a sculpture by the artist Thomas Hirschhorn, and its final line stated the poem’s thesis question — “Who can see this and not see lynchings?”
Center for African American Poetry and Poetics hosts “Black Ecstatic” panel and showcase
By Dylan Giacobbe, For the Pitt News
October 26, 2018
Rickey Laurentiis — a poet from New Orleans currently serving as the inaugural fellow of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics — took the stage at the Frick Fine Arts building on Thursday night and made clear what they came to see. “I wanted to see how a black filmmaker argues her body into a ...