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Event
Loose Canon
Loose Canon, A Special MassLEAP Event, with readings from nationally renowned writers, organizers and essayists Danez Smith and Eve Ewing will take place on Saturday, January 30th from 7:00 - 9:00pm at Danger!Awesome (10 Prospect St, Cambridge, MA). There will be an intimate q&a session after the event. It's going to be all kinds of lit.
For more information on MassLEAP, Louder Than A Bomb Massachusetts or youth poetry in the state, go to our website: www.massleapcollective.org.
Danez Smith
is the author of [;;;insert];;; boy (2014, YesYes Books), winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His 2nd collection, Don't Call Us Dead, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. He is also the author of two chapbooks, hands on ya knees & black movie, winner of the Button Poetry Prize.His work has published & featured widely including in Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Buzzfeed, Blavity, & Ploughshares. He is a 2014 Ruth Lilly - Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, a Cave Canem and VONA alum, and a recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship. He is a 2-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, placing 2nd in 2014. He edits for The Offing & is a founding member of 2 collectives, Dark Noise and Sad Boy Supper Club. He lives in the midwest most of the time.
Danez was featured in American Academy of Poet's Emerging Writers Series by National Book Award Finalist Patricia Smith. Like her, he bridges the poetics of the stage to that of the page. Danez's work transcends arbitrary boundaries to present work that is gripping, dismantling of oppression constructs, and striking on the human heart. Often centered around intersections of race, class, sexuality, faith, and social justice, Danez uses rhythm, fierce raw power, and image to re-imagine the world as takes it apart in his work.
For more information on Danez Smith, check his website: www.danezsmithpoet.com
Eve Ewing
is an essayist and poet. Currently, she is an editor and staff writer for Seven Scribes. Formerly, she has served as managing editor for Kinfolks: a journal of black expression, and an editor and co-chair of the Harvard Educational Review. She is also an organizer of the Louder Than A Bomb Massachusetts youth poetry slam. She has been a nominee for the Pushcart Prize, a recipient of a scholarship from the New Harmony Writers Workshop, and a semi-finalist for the Pamet River Prize. Her work has been published in many venues, including Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, Union Station, and the anthology The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop.
Eve is also a doctoral candidate at Harvard University; as a sociologist of education, her research is focused on racism, social inequality, and urban policy, and the impact of these forces on American public schools and the lives of young people. Her dissertation, "Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side," explores these topics in the context of the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community.
For more information on Eve Ewing, check her website: www.eveewing.com
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LocationDanger!Awesome
10 Prospect St
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
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