April 7, 2012, Saturday - Equilibrium: Tara Betts and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha at The Loft
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Equilibrium: Tara Betts and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Cosponsored by the Givens Foundation for African American Literature
Pushcart and Lambda Prize nominee Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer chronically ill Sri Lankan writer, teacher and cultural worker. The author of Consensual Genocide and Love Cake, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities, she co-founded Mangos With Chili, the national queer and trans people of color performance organization. She is a lead artist with Sins Invalid and has taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People.
Tara Betts is the author of the book Arc and Hue and a Cave Canem fellow. Tara taught creative writing at Rutgers University and is now working on her PhD in Creative Writing. Tara’s poetry and prose has appeared in various journals and anthologies. She appeared on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam and the Black Family Channel series SPOKEN. After winning the Guild Complex’s Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award, she represented Chicago twice at the National Poetry Slam. She has performed in Cuba, London, New York, the West Coast and throughout the Midwest.
$5.00/ $3.00 student/Loft member
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