Two NE Ohio Black Women Poets Share Their Work

Dr. Mary E. Seems

Fri 10/2 @3:15-4:15PM

Case Western Reserve University’s Colloquium series this month features a pair of accomplished northeast Ohio-based black women poets sharing their work in a poetry reading.

Dr. Mary E. Weems is well known in the area for her work in a variety of spheres: she’s a poet, playwright and nonfiction writer, a performer, an educator, an activist and an“imagination-intellect theorist.” She’s published 13 books, along with five chapbooks and numerous artists and chapter contributions to anthologies. She won the 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize Emerging Artist’s Award for her play MEAT. She was also the Cleveland Heights poet laureate in 2008-2009.

She’ll be reading with Twinsburg-based Michelle R. Smith, a writer, educator and cultural facilitator, whose poetry has been published in various anthologies and publications, as well as her own book Ariel in Blackand her recent second collection The Vagina Analogues. She also created and produces BLAX Museum, an annual showcase for black arts and performing talent that honors influencial black historial and cultural figures.

To join the free Zoom seminar go here.

 

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