A.C.T.O.R (A Continuing Talk on Race) Langston Hughes Birthday Celebration
Date and Time
Feb 5, 2017 3:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Feb 5, 2017 3:00 pm
14th & V
The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly about issues of race. The intent is that each person walks away from the discussion feeling something: challenged, educated, uncomfortable, enlightened, refreshed, reassured and hopefully inspired and moved to action! Each month there is a new topic for discussion.
This month's topic:
Langston Hughes' Birthday Celebration!
Featuring Poets Katy Richey of Black Poets Speak out and Derrick Weston Brown
Hughes is the namesake for Busboys and Poets so we want this next discussion to celebrate him and his artform. What does it mean to be a black poet? What responsibilities do you have? What place has it had in our survival? Now more than ever it is imperative for people of color to create, and how like an act of resistance it is.
Katy Richey’s work has appeared in Rattle, Cincinnati Review, RHINO, The Offing and other journals. She received an honorable mention for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for Tubelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Poetry Award. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops and is the recipient of a Fine Arts Work Center Walker Scholarship for Writers of Color and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. She hosts the Sunday Kind of Love reading series open mic at Busboys and Poets in Washington D.C., sponsored by Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Derrick Weston Brown holds an MFA in creative writing, from American University. He has studied poetry under Dr. Tony Medina at Howard University and Cornelius Eady at American University. He is a graduate of the Cave Canem Summer workshop for black poets and the VONA summer workshop. His work has appeared in such literary journals asWarpland, Mythium, Ginsoko, DrumVoices, The Columbia Poetry Review, and the online journals Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Howard University’s Amistad, LocusPoint, andMiPOesias.
Free and open to all.
A.C.T.O.R. is held on the first Sunday of every month at Busboys and Poets 14th & V from 5:00 PM-7:00 pm.
