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The Changing Myths That Shape Our Culture, Sponsored by Red Hen Press
Friday, March 10, 2023
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
If white men tell history, it’s a story of law, vengeance, and violence. If the story is told by women and writers of color, how does the story change? Point of view is everything. Through this reading and discussion featuring BIPOC poets, we include a view of history not seen before, the underneath, the dark, the wept on places where children find their way toward compassion. This event will be livestreamed. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.
Participants
Francesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain and What Small Sound and the translator of Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems by Max Sessner. Her work appears in ELLE, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Rattle, among other publications. She is translation editor for Los Angeles Review.
Afaa M. Weaver
Amber Flame is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, activist, and educator. In her writing, Flame explores spirituality and sexuality, cross-woven with themes of grief and loss, motherhood and magic, and the interstitial joy in it all.
Douglas Manuel is a fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing. His first full length collection of poems, Testify (Red Hen Press, 2017), won the 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for poetry.
Brynn Saito
