Participants from Safia Jama’s workshop, “Best Practices: A Poetry Workshop,” share new work.
Safia Jama was born to a Somali father and an Irish American mother in Queens, New York. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, she has published poetry in Ploughshares, RHINO, Cagibi, Boston Review, Spoken Black Girl, and No Dear. Her poetry has also been featured on WNYC’s Morning Edition and CUNY TV’s Shades of US series. Jama is the author of Notes on Resilience, which was selected for The New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Akashic Books).
https://cavecanempoets.org/calendar/best-practices-a-poetry-workshop-reading/
Date:
December 9, 2021
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Event Category:
Javan Howard -- Javan Howard is a poet and writer from Bronx, NY. He truly believes that the lived experience is the ultimate teaching tool and uses poetry as a social forum to foster discourse about love, culture, and Identity.