Zoom Meeting ID: 849 0497 4839, Passcode: 570429, Phone: +1 646-876-9923
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Nzadi Keita, a Philly-born writer, editor, and scholar, is a 2017 Pew Fellow for the Arts in Poetry. Her book of persona poems, BRIEF EVIDENCE OF HEAVEN, gives voice to abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass, first wife of Frederick Douglass. Cited by Yale historian David Blight, the book was also a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Prize from the Quarterly Black Book Review. Keita is an alumna of Cave Canem, whose poems have appeared in journals such as Poet Lore and anthologies including A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Fellowships from Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Leeway Foundation have supported Keita’s writing and community work. She has collaborated with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Project, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and WHYY. Keita is an associate professor at Ursinus College.

J. C. Todd is author of five books of poetry; most recent are Beyond Repair, runner-up in the 2020 Able Muse Press Contest (forthcoming in 2020), and The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press), a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist. Winner of the Rita Dove Prize and twice a finalist for Poetry Society of America awards, she holds fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and has poems in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Paris Review, and Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts
You can sign up for the open reading at 7PM!