POETRY READING

June 25, 6-7:30 pm

with Bolade Akintolayo, Ewuare X.
Osayande, Shaunda Holloway (Sekai)
and others
IVES PROGRAMMING at

Ewuare X. Osayande Bolade S.

is the editor of Stand Our
Ground: Poems for Trayvon
Martin and Marissa Alex-
ander. His other books
include Blood Luxury with
an introduction by Amiri
Baraka; Misogyny & the
Emcee: Sex, Race & Hip
Hop; and Whose America?
New and Selected Poems. Osayande is the founder
of POWER (People Organized Working to Eradi-
cate Racism) and ONUS: Rites-of-Passage. He has
taught African American Studies at Rutgers
University. Read more at Osayande.org.
Copies of Stand Our Ground
will be available for purchase.
Akintolayo’s work
has appeared in Journal
of Pan African Studies,
Poems On The Road to
Peace and Echoes From
Elm Street. She works
in multiple genres at
the Louis Reyes Rivera
Writers Workshop.
Shaunda Holloway
(Sekai) is a poet, writer
and printmaker. Her
work has been pub-
lished in Essence,
CT Post, Inner City and
other publications.
Her prints have been
exhibited as far away
as Delhi, India.

no charge | public welcome

Information: brighteyesholloway@yahoo.com

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