NEW BOOK! 

AVAILABLE FROM BEACON PRESS, BOOKSHOP.org, & wherever books are sold.

“Drawn from her experiences of being born in Philadelphia, into a Black family and a Black culture transported from the American South by the Great Migration, M. Nzadi Keita’s poetry sparks a profoundly hybrid gaze of the visual and the sensory.”

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Upcoming Events

-3/21, 9 a.m., “On The Margin” WPFW radio 89.3 FM Hosted by E. Ethelbert Miller

-3/21, 5 p.m. online www.gtownradio.com Hosted by Maleka Fruean, Germantown InfoHub

-4/2, 7:30 p.m. in conversation with Dr. Herman Beavers Free Library of Philadelphia Central, 1901 Vine Street

-4/3, 7-9 p.m. Mad Poets’ First Wednesday Series with Taije Silverman, author of Now You Can Join the Others: poems Community Arts Center, 414 Plush Mill Rd., Wallingford, PA

“One current poet, M. Nzadi Keita, has tried through literary imagination to give Anna a voice… Such poetry is not a historical source for Anna’s interior world. But it does provide us a language by which we can gaze into it.” David W. Blight author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

“ You caught sight of them across Lincoln Drive

in the back of a Caddy. Passing by”

Letters to Mt. Airy, West Side

Ideas, Invites, Leaps, Landings, & Collaborations

You have winnowed this speech down to three or four sentences, starting with your double-standard buster: Being the only woman in the house does not mean you were put on the Earth to feed them. With plain words you lasso the moment, leveled and calm: everybody at this table eats, so everybody should cook.