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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PRINT NEWS:

3 Poems from Migration Letters in Obsidian Journal of African-American Literature & Art, Vol. 42.1.

 “Zoom,” a micro-essay, featured in the “Radical Joy” column of Raising Mothers online journal

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• Dancing on the Shore: Poems from MIGRATION LETTERS

  April 3, 5:30 - 7:00

  Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Phila. PA

• Celebrating Poetry Month:

  M. Nzadi Keita

  & Nathalie Anderson

  April 17, 6:30 – 7:30

  Main Point Books,

  116 No. Wayne Ave, Wayne, PA

• Gaithersburg Book Festival

  May 17, 10 – 6, Bohrer Park, 506 S. Frederick Ave.,

  Gaithersburg, MD

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“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

“How your bangs comb out sparks each day’s

happiness. Double-dutching

in plaid jumpers and knee socks.

Running through sprinklers, those

birdlike fingers foretell fringe.”

from Migration Letters:

“[Set for Chaka Khan: Yvette]”

Ideas, Invites, Leaps, Landings, & Collaborations

Their faces conveyed the remote calm of people who were wide awake, caffeinated, and trained on an agenda.  Following their cues, I stuffed my expectation that we would ramp up with a few minutes of chat. … One of the consultants, the grant specialist, slouched on a divan with his eyes half-obscured by a black hoodie. He launched with a blunt-edged question that belied his utterly casual presentation: “What’s the central idea behind your LOA?”