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About the Program
In this weekly series, seven Bay Area poets share new poems created in response to the current exhibitions. They will also describe the processes they employ in writing ekphrastic work. Come and listen, and experience art that moves your spirit to consider power and liberation. January 6-February 17 feature individual performances. These readings and discussions culminate in the MoAD Salon with an evening of performance by all the poets in this series on February 24th.
Featured Poet
Michal ‘MJ’ Jones is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet & parent in Oakland, CA. Their poems have appeared in Anomaly, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, & TriQuarterly Review. They are the Managing Poetry Editor at Foglifter Press, a journal for queer & trans writers, and have received fellowships from Hurston/Wright Foundation, VONA/Voices, & Kearny Street Workshop. They received their MFA in Creative Writing – Poetry from Mills College.
Their debut poetry collection HOOD VACATIONS is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2023.
The exhibitions on view are Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks and Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun.
This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.
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