Link: http://www.mosaicbooks.com/
Enjoy what I am sure will be an amazing festival and wonderful 10th anniversary readings:
Join Mosaic Literary Magazine as we celebrate ten years of presenting the literary arts by writers of African descent. This series of readings will display the diversity of content Mosaic has showcased since 1998.
Friday, October 3, 6:30-9pm
Thomas Glave, R. Erica Doyle,
and Rosamond King
The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers along with selections by internationally celebrated figures.
Our Caribbean editor Thomas Glave, and R. Erica Doyle and Rosamond King will read from their contributions to the anthology.
Harlem School of the Arts
645 St. Nicholas Avenue (bet 141st and 145th Sts)
New York, NY 10030
$20 contribution welcomed.
Contributors will receive a one-year subscription to Mosaic
Co-presented with the
Up South International Book Festival
Thomas Glave photo by Georgia Popplewell
Wednesday, October 8, 6:30-8:30pm
Tayari Jones
Novelist Tayari Jones is the author of Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling, winner of the Hurston/Wright and Lillian C Smith Awards. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, McSweeey’s, The Believer, and The New York Times. She is on the MFA faculty at Rutgers University.
Tayari Jones will read from her work and then be joined by poet Nicole Sealey for a conversation about Tayari’s work and writing process.
MoCADA
80 Hanson Pl (at South Portland Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Free event.
Contribute $10 and receive a one-year subscription to Mosaic.
Tuesday, October 14, 7-10pm
Patrick Rosal
Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members’ Choice Award from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award.
His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, Crab Orchard Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance Noire, and Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
Bruckner Bar and Grill
1 Bruckner Blvd.
Bronx NY 10454
Free event.
Contribute $10 and receive a one-year subscription to Mosaic.
Co-presented with the Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase
Wednesday, December 3, 6:30pm & 7:30pm
Americo Casiano & Louis Reyes Rivera
Américo Casiano, Jr. is a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry fellow, and the founder and artistic director of NuyoRican School Original Poetry Jazz Ensemble. He recently published his first volume of poetry On the Stand: Poems. His work has also been anthologized in Bum Rush The Page: Def Poetry Jam (2001), New Rains Volume Nine: Our Fathers/Ourselves (1999), Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets’ Café (1994), and Nuyorican Poetry (1976).
Considered by many as a necessary bridge between the African and Latino American communities, Louis Reyes Rivera is the recipient of over 20 awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award (1995), a Special Congressional Recognition award (1986), and CCNY’s 125th Anniversary Medal (1973). He remains among the more respected underground poets who has assisted in the publication of over 200 books, including John Oliver Killens’ Great Black Russian, Adal Maldonado’s Portraits of the Puerto Rican Experience, Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam, and The Bandana Republic, an anthology of prose and poetry from current and former gang members.
Longwood Art Gallery
450 Grand Concourse at 149th St.
Bronx NY 10451
Free event.
Co-presented with the Bronx Council on the Arts
These events were funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York State department of Cultural Affairs; and The Bronx Council on the Arts
The Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through education, creative thinking, and new media.
Conference Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008
Location: Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY
The Re:Verse Literary Conference & Festival presents creative ways for keeping literature and books valuable sources of knowledge and creativity. This series of professional-development workshops will help educators incorporate literature into existing curricula to further explore course work that focuses on cultures, history, and social studies.
The mission is to bring a love of literature back into the classroom in new, unique, and exciting ways.
All conference attendees will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to Mosaic Literary Magazine ($24 value) and lunch. Register before October 1 and receive a 33% conference discount. http://reverse.eventbrite.com
Early Registration: $10
Session I: 12:00n – 1:15pm
Conscious Women Rock the Page: Using Hip Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change
Conscious Women Rock the Page to support educators who wish to use hip-hop fiction in their classrooms to explore social issues and promote activism among their students.
Instructors: Jennifer Calderon, Elisha Miranda, Sofía Quintero,
and Marcella Runell Hall
Puerto Rican and Dominican Poetry in the Classroom
This workshop will explore the work of poets from the rich cultural communities Puerto Rican and Dominican and ways to use their work in the classroom.
Instructor: Tara Betts
Session II: 1:30-2:45pm
Revisiting the Role of Literature & Culture in the Classroom through Art & the Written Word
Revisiting the Role of Literature will explore the fusion of culture, literature, and visual arts in new ways; global community building through literature; and the role played by literature, art and the new media in the creation of a heritage and cultural identity
Instructors: Gabrielle David and Nikita Hunter
The Bridge is Over: Connecting Young Adults with Engaging, Age-Appropriate Literature
The Bridge is Over will provide educators and youth providers with strategies to identify and work with engaging multicultural young adult literature.
Instructor: Felicia Pride/BackList
Lunch: 2:45-3:30pm
Session III: 3:45-5:00pm
Learning About Ourselves and Each Other: How Reading Diverse Text Promotes Tolerance and Boundary-Stretching
This workshop will engage participants in discussion and activity that identifies ways to engage urban youth in literary pursuits that include reading about and discussing literary texts by authors who are culturally different or write about characters who are different culturally in any way ranging from ethnicity and religion to nationality and gender.
Instructor: Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Poems as Speech Acts and Accommodating Forms
Workshop participants will read aloud and analyze three to four contemporary poems by different poets and discuss how our attitudes, beliefs, and our understanding of diction, tone, and context influence us to arrive at the poet’s intended meaning.
Instructor: Charles H. Lynch
All conference attendees will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to Mosaic Literary Magazine ($24 value) and lunch. Register before October 1 and receive a 33% conference discount. http://reverse.eventbrite.com
Early Registration: $10
Re:Verse is presented by The Literary Freedom Project, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through education, creative thinking, and new media. Additional support was provided by the Bronx Council on the Arts, Backlist, and Hostos Community College.
Mosaic is a quarterly magazine exploring the literary arts by writers of African descent. Each issue contains a unique blend of essays, profiles, and reviews.
ISSUE 22 OF MOSAIC LITERARY MAGAZINE
Mosaic continues to document important voices informing contemporary literature. In this issue Ozioma Egwuonwu interviews the bestselling young-adult writer Walter Dean Myers. He discusses his new book The Game.
Nicole Sealy interviewed legendary poet Nikki Giovanni about her 30 books of poetry. We also reviewed books by Paula Giddings, Kalisha Buchanon, and Lamont Steptoe.
As always, there’s more wonderful editorial, but you’ll have to subscribe. Go to http://mosaicmagazine.org/preview.html, and receive 60% off the cover price.
Future issues will feature Naomi Long Madgett, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Akiba Solomon, and Jamel Shabazz among others.
Subscribe to Mosaic. Your support will strengthen our ability to showcase the literary arts by writers of the African Diaspora.
The Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through education, creative thinking, and new media.
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