Dear Cherry Blossoms:
Remotely Personal Greetings is
hosting its fourth remote event of the Spring 2021 season. Time to pick
ourselves of that carpet of cheery blossoms fallen from budding
branches & walk right into our nearest councilperson's storefront
& demand they do something about police brutality, racial profiling,
gun licenses, intellectual property of vaccines, racist &
discriminatory practices, just to name a few alarms. Thus what better
time to stretch your arms and legs and let your senses imbibe the scents
of new life everywhere. So after a wondrous day of voicing your
protests against continuing political reactionism, vibe to the drum of
mother nature reawakening, we invite ya'll to tune in to these 4 writers
listening to the world through their words on Thursday, May 6th at 8:30 PM EST ( 7:30 CST, 6:30 MST, 5:30PST, 4:30AST, 3:30 HST)
DeJuan Carter-Woodard-
Realizes the collective will to change often needs a catalyst to set the
wheels of social & cultural evolution in motion. While bleeding between the
bars or being tasered to death at the border has moved many of us to call for
action in dismantling a system of injustice & incarceration that has
increasingly become one of profit & less of rehabilitation (if it ever was
that) we must create a language seeking to deconstruct preconceived notions of who is
placed behind bars, why & what happens once they’re embedded within the penal
system.
Andrew Joron-
Understands that
antonyms abound & where we have antonyms we have
multiple levels of meaning, a discourse wherein the layered black
squares of
George Braque can be reconfigured by Reverdy’s roll of the dice &
the
formations of new word patterns leading to new world views can lead us
to questions without easy answers, all the more worth pursuing.
Adrienne Oliver knows
the finished line is never truly, truly finished. The pome grows
along with us, it’s line stretching out as our limbs experience more of
the
world & not just the trauma of living but the tresses of womanhood
&
the truth that untangling hair can bring to the littlest rock in the
circle of being or the biggest wave on the wide ocean's stage
Seema Reza Is fully aware We Are Not Done Yet – for the work of the pome & the
poet, the work of the human to build community thru works of art is ever afoot.
As a teaching artist she knows that when the world breaks open we must place
all our constellations of half-lives to work, not just to illuminate the ever
encroaching night but to reveal the beauty within darkness
As
last Season an email detailing the Zoom log-in info will be sent to
guests an hour or two beforehand. Once you log-on there will be a short
wait while your email is verified. The "live" event will begin at 8:30
EST with a brief meet n' greet, followed by the convocation, leading us
to the 1st reader of the evening.
And
please don't forget to support UNNAMEABLE BOOKS the amazing book store
who is our live host! You can find them here at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in
Brooklyn's Burgeoning Prospect Heights 11-7 ... 2 customers at a time
or go to https://unnameablebooks.square.site to purchase the latest, greatest & past books from these fantastic poets...
Feel free to forward any questions our way.
Looking forward to seeing ya'll,
X's to your O's
Jeffrey Joe Nelson
Jed Shahar
