Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Lyrispect, Octavia Clarkson, Rabivatu Jalloh, & Barrett Rosser with Hosts Alina Macneal and Jennifer hook

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Educator-Poets

Presented in collaboration with the Philadelphia Writing Project

Lyrispect is an award-winning lyricist, author,activist, educator and voiceover artist. She is an advocate for Black Folx, women, girls, people of color and marginalized communities. She is the Director of Programming for the African American Museum in Philadelphia and has held sustained leadership roles in Black Girls Rock, her work has appeared at the NAACP National Convention, The Toni Cade Bambara Conference, on two murals. Whether curating teaching, organizing or performing, she infuses in all her work the belief that honest expression with layered execution can disrupt, heal, liberate and transform.

Octavia Clarkson is blessed with the gift to write poetry, music and narratives. She has been an educator for over 15 years demonstrating her love of learning and sharing it with the community. Currently a Temple University doctoral student, she examines the importance of African women’s narratives as a ritual for cultural empowerment and identity. She began writing more poetry after being introduced to the great poets of The Black Arts Movement which she now teaches at Pan-African Studies Community Education Program (PASCEP).

Rabivatu Jalloh is an English Language Arts and Social Justice Educator and Poet from Philadelphia and New York City.

Barrett Rosser is currently a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at UPENN after over a decade of facilitating student, teacher, and adult learning as a literacy teacher, adjunct professor, teacher coach, and diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist. She is the Philadelphia Writing Project Scholar, a practitioner-scholar involved in the practice of education in schools, school districts, colleges, and universities, a dreamer, lover, and poet. She is a huge reader, and she loves giving back to her community.

Alina   Macneal  & Jennifer Hook Hosts – Open Reading Follows