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A Celebration of Black Teen Poetry
Thursday, November 6, 6:00-7:30 PM
Riverside Main Library Upstairs Reading Room
3900 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside 92501
FREE. All are welcome.
Join Inlandia’s Blacklandia Events Series at Riverside Main Library for a First Thursdays Artswalk celebration of Black Youth Poetry! Poet Romaine Washington will host a lineup of teen poets that includes Langston Brown, Damani Berry /Bermuda, and Minyan Murphy. Are you a teen poet interested in reading at an open mic? Stop by and share your work!
Romaine Washington, M. Ed., is a twice Pushcart-nominated poet. She is the editor of These Black Bodies Are… A Blacklandia Anthology and returning guest editor for Cholla Needles. She has authored two books Purgatory Has an Address and Sirens in Her Belly. Ms. Washington is a graduate fellow of The Watering Hole, South Carolina, and the Inland Area Writing Project at the University of California, Riverside. For over twenty years, she taught language arts and now enjoys facilitating workshops. The proud mother of two sons, Romaine Washington, is a native Californian residing in the Inland Empire.
