Party People, Party People: Friday Good News Roll Call!
I’m up early this morning because I’m pretty excited since this has been a good news week for me: I was included in two new books on poetry that just came out!
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This Bridge Called My Back: The Mothers, The Daughters
Last year marked the 30h anniversary of the publication of This Bridge Called My Back, one of the most cited feminist texts by women of color.
Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes!
February 1, the first day of Black History Month, also is Langston Hughes’s birthday!
PR’s Afropalooza Novel Pick: DESSA ROSE by Sherley Anne Williams
Please join me on Twitter on February 12, 19, and 26 at 4pm EST to chat about Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams. Use #Afropalooza as the hashtag!
You Gotta Read This: A Podcast w/ Booker T. Mattison on May 31@8pm EST
I’m talking with novelist and filmmaker Booker T. Mattison this evening at 8pm EASTERN on Talkshoe.com; he’s got a new novel just out called Snitch.
“You Gotta Read This”: A Podcast w/Tayari Jones On May 17 @ 8pm EST
Tomorrow evening at 8pm Eastern Time, I will be talking with Tayari Jones about her just published third book, Silver Sparrow on Talkshoe.com. You don’t want to miss it!
