BREAKDOWN: The Poet & The Poems S2E1 – Remica L. Bingham Risher

Описание: BREAKDOWN: The Poet & The Poems, Season 2, Episode 1, hosted by Tamara J. Madison, features poet Remica Bingham Risher (bio below) discussing her newest collection, ROOM SWEPT HOME (Wesleyan University Press). This episode is the kick-off of a limited edition series discussing "lineage literature," poets who are writing about or directly inspired by their own personal family lineage. Remica graciously introduces us to two of her grandmothers and the rich history behind their courageous stories.

BREAKDOWN: The Poet & The Poems is a conversation series to spread awareness of poets and their poetry as inspiration and motivation for our everyday life journeys. The conversations are for poets and non-poets, writers, readers, spoken word artists, students/fans of poetry, and anyone looking for a little "soul food."

This opportunity is made possible through the Literary Arts Projects, a program of South Arts.

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POET'S BIO:
Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, Callaloo and Essence. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006) winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and adapted into an immersive dance and installation work by INSPIRIT Dance Company, and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017) winner of the Diode Editions Book Award and finalist for the Library of Virginia Book Award. She is an in-demand speaker at festivals, libraries, bookstores, colleges and universities and has been a featured performer at the Kennedy Center, Dodge Poetry Festival, and numerous other venues. Her memoir, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions That Grew Me Up, was published by Beacon Press (2022). Her newest book, Room Swept Home, is a work of poems, historical and family photographs from Wesleyan University Press (2024) and was chosen as an Honor Poetry Book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and won the L.A. Times Book Prize. She is the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, where she resides with her husband and children.

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