Event Date
Monday, April 11 2011 : 6:30pm – 8:00pmLocation
The CenterDescription
Monday, April 11, 2011
Program 6:30PM
Center Authors presents The World of Poetry
Tonight poets Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Rajiv Mohabir, Anton Nimblett, Irradiance (Thereece Thomas) and Ysanne K. Latchman share their experiences and explain how their country of origin has influenced their work.
This program is curated by author Cheryl Boyce Taylor.
More About Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Born in Trinidad and raised in Queens, New York, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet, teaching artist, mother, and Social Worker employed at Center Care Wellness at the LGBT Community Center in NYC.
The author of three collections of poetry, Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows and Convincing the Body. Her work was recently published in four new Anthologies: Caribbean Erotica, So Much Things to Say: 100 Calabash Poets, Encyclopedia Vol. 11 F-K, and For the Crowns of Your Heads: Poems for Haiti. Boyce-Taylor recently performed her text WATER at The Joyce Theater with Evidence Dance Company. She earned an MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast, University of Southern Maine in 2010, and is currently working on a new manuscript titled, Wild Sorrel. She dedicates these poems to her late mother, Eugenia Boyce, who read poems to her at bedtime.
More About Sections of an Orange by author Anton Nimblett
Sections of an Orange is a collection of stories about characters driven by desire. Characters migrate between stories, just as they migrate between Trinidad and New York; the stories include the lives of gay men, heterosexuals, young and old, country folk and urbanites.
More About Irradiance (Thereece Thomas)
A logophile in search of the perfect pitch and tone to articulate the expressed and implied emotions that run through her. A writer that continually challenges self to freely represent the woman she is and growing to be. Pieces composed come forth from the depths of her core in forms that surpass and fall outside the box of tradition. She constructs building blocks of past lives, memories and stories told and lived. Her pen designed on hold came about out of transformation from unknowing innocence to life's harsh realities. Hers are victories that done one piece at a time. Composing works with distinct language that translate like a drop of water into the pool a ripple effect as she is felt.
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