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Kickass Kickoff – readings with Denice Frohman and Patricia Spears Jones
June 7, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
This event is part of the 2024 Kickass Writers Festival featuring writers, poets, comedians and other creatives from across the country. The festival is a celebration of how writing and storytelling — in all of their forms — are essential to art, entertainment and social change and includes readings, workshops, a publishing panel, special performances, a book fair, an open mic, a regional author showcase, a stand-up show, and more!
This event and many others are FREE + open to the public as part of the 2024 Kickass Writers Festival!
Kick off the 2024 Kickass Writers Fest with electrifying readings by two proud New Yorkers dedicated to building community through poetry: Patricia Spears-Jones, the 2024 NY State Poet Laureate, and Denice Frohman, former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion.
Last Kickass, Willie Perdomo was the audience favorite; if you loved him then these women will rock your world!
DENICE FROHMAN is a poet and performer from New York City. A Pew Fellow and Baldwin-Emerson Fellow, she’s received support from CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures, and Millay Colony.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, ESPNW and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she’s featured on hundreds of national and International stages from The Apollo to The White House. She lives in Philadelphia.
PATRICIA SPEARS JONES has lived and worked in New York City since 1974. She is a poet, playwright, educator, cultural activist, and anthologist and has been appointed New York State Poet (2023-25). She is the recipient of 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers. She is author of The Beloved Community and A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems and 3 full-length collections and five chapbooks. At the Rauschenberg Residency, she published Collapsing Forrest City, Photo Giclée. Her poems are widely anthologized among them: 250 Years of African American Poetry: Why African American Poetry Matters Today, Plume Poetry 8; 2017 Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of Small Presses; WORD: An Anthology A Gathering of the Tribes; Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poets, and in journals such as About Place Journal; Paterson Literary Review; Cutthroat Journal; alinejournal.com/convergence; The New Yorkerand The Brooklyn Rail.
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