APRIL EVENTS Happy Spring IT'S SPRING TIME AND WE ARE CHIRPING Dear e-drum, Winter has been long and the economy sucks but you can't stop the Seasons from changing.  It Spring Time...and everything must change. So we we are dusting off the weary smile and welcoming you with a big smile to Hue-Man...a constant in your life for the past 10 years...Yes...this year August we turn 10... APRIL SIGNINGS FRIDAY, APRIL 1 6PM 86400 LAVAILLE LAVETTE Lavaille Lavette is an educator, author and a woman on purpose...86,400 seconds is all the time we have in a day...but if we are living on purpose, in the now, and honor time those precious seconds--indeed one Day is all we need to maximize the life we have. She tells us how... SATURDAY APRIL 2pm matinee DIE FREE CHERYL WILLS @ Page to Stage in Conversation with the cast of The Whipping man Our Page to Stage Program began with Terry McMillan at Fela...We loved it and loved its potential for our authors and the interconnectedness of the works that pertain to our stories on Broadway...so we are back with another amazing show and author.  The Whipping Man staring Andre Braugher is about a confederate Soldier and two slaves...Die Free by Cheryl Wills is about her great-great Grandfather Sandy Wills  who was a soldier in the Civil War.... TUESDAY, APRIL 5 6PM STRAWBERRY LETTERS SHIRLEY STRAWBERRY Shirley Strawberry is the co-host of the nationally syndicated "Steve Harvey Show". Strawberry is know for delivering no-nonsense woman-to-woman straight talk to her listeners who have come to depend on fierce honesty.  Shirley brings her a game message to Hue-Man...are you ready for the straight talk?  FRIDAY, APRIL 8 6PM HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY TYRESE GIBSON This multi-platinum singer, song writer and actor Tyrese knows how to get out of his own way and how to kept it moving upwards...also a former Fashion model, rapper and MTV VJ Tyrese know about what it takes to navigate the world of success.  Believing in his dream and going for it at a mere sixteen years old he was not deterred by the fact that he was born in Watts with what to many might have seemed like insurmountable odds.... his answer re-program your thinking to achieve the life you have always imagined. SATURDAY, APRIL 9 4PM BUTTERFLY RISING TONYA WRIGHT This beautiful smile and beautiful face is accompanied by an equally beautiful spirit.  You might recognize Tanya from the role she played as Theo's girlfriend on the Cosby Show or now on HBO's True Blood where she appears in the role Kenya on the super popular series  A graduate of Vassar this Diva is a playwright, author and has just directed her own movie based on the book Butterfly Rising.... SUNDAY APRIL 10 4PM FIRST VOICES DADDY I AM THE MAN YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KEVIN HOLMES What they see is what they'll be is the Motto of the 100 Black Men. Kelvin Holmes was determined to break prove that motto wrong.  As a child he learned firsthand from a father who was---a man without a plan---what not to become.  With conscious choices Kevin chose to look at the glass as half full instead of half empty...... WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 6PM LIVING IN THE VILLAGE RYAN MACK Ryan Mack is a financial commentator on CNN and is dear to our hearts her in Harlem because he "speakie" our language.  He understands the money game and the conversation we are spearheading all over our community...individuals who have control of their finances and understand the power of money will benefit their communities in enormous ways.   This is the 21st Century conversation for African Americans and other ethnic communities with trillions of spending dollars that they control...what will you be? Consumer or financial Juggernaut who can then be a community empower-er?  THURSDAY, APRIL 14 6PM RUDE BOUY JOHN ANDREWS DEA meets Traffic....A diabolical and hard hitting story of the underbelly of a world saturated with corruption, deception, duplicity and inequities of all kinds...this spellbinding novel will keep you on the edge of your seat...Can DEA Rude Buay save his paradise Island from the Dragon Cartel? SATURDAY, APRIL 16 8AM to 4PM off-site at Aaron Davis Hall SISTER TO SISTER: One In the Spirit Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a wonderful day of empowerment and inspiration and great Women of Power and Influence. Judge Karen Mills, Cheryl Wills, Elaine Meryl Brown, Rhonda McLean and Marsha Haygood will be guest speakers at this powerful all day long conference.  These great authors will also be signing books at the Hue-Man Bookstore on site at the Aaron Davis Hall.....there will also be a health expo and many vendors.  Vendor opportunities are available by calling...212-281-9240...Thanks Yvonne Davis for this gift. SATURDAY, APRIL 16 4PM LOVE AND OBSESSION A WOMAN"S TOUCH BILLIE GREENE Dr. Williams had it all.  A successful pediatric practice...a husband who she thought the world of until she finds out he has a life of his very own. Turning to her friend whose sympathetic ear turns into something else..A Woman's Touch...Williams abandons everyone to be with her new found lover only to find out that her lover has a Pandora's box of her own. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 6PM CAMO GIRL KEKLA MAGOON Kekla writes the stories young adults want to read. Set in Las Vegas, the story of Z the odd kid out is one one of loyalty and friendship.  Z is great but unpopular. Ella is practically Z's only friend who doesn't seem to mind that she is black.  When Billie, another black kid comes to school he becomes popular and he can make Ella popular too but only if she promises to ditch Z.... THURSDAY, APRIL 21 6PM BLACK ORCHID BLUES PERSIA WALKER Oh what a peek into the a fantasy 1920's Harlem.  Walker's Harlem Renaissance novel (her third..Harlem Redux) bring us up close and personal with performing sensation Queenie Lovetree, a six foot three drag queen...who is taken at gun point from the club right informant of Harlem Chronicle society columnist Lanie Price...Ohhh drama, and more drama, then intrigue and more intrigue...yes..this is a good, good page turner... SATURDAY, APRIL 23 4PM License to Live: THE UNDERDOG OVERCOMES ELVIN DOWLING Was the former Chief of Staff of the national Urban League...gives you a "License to Live....Elvin Dowling came from the Florida Ghetto, wound his way though savvy moves to Capitol Hill and ended up on Wall Street.  He saw world and those who ruled it up close and personal.  Most recently the former Chief of Staff of the Urban League Edwin Dowling words and pearls of wisdom are worth hearing.... TUESDAY, APRIL 26 6PM JUSTIFY MY THUG WAHIDA CLARK Revisit the sage of the Clark's favorite couple...in their Hip-Hop tug of war life on the streets. THURSDAY, APRIL 28 6PM READING HAIR STORY HUE-MAN BOOK CLUB FRIDAY, APRIL 29 6PM REGINE ROUSSEAU SEARCHING FOR CLOVES AND LILIES A powerful book of poems that began with a question.  Regine asked women what was their favorite body parts...she was met with stories, silence, incredulous stairs and in many cases open answers from both friends and strangers...a theater major this event is sure to be fun.... SATURDAY, APRIL 30 2PM TUTU GOES GREEN TULANI THOMAS Children's book that shows children how they can practice green habits everyday and help our planet earth...

Japan may have lost race

to save nuclear reactor

Fukushima meltdown fears rise after radioactive core melts through vessel – but 'no danger of Chernobyl-style catastrophe'

• In pictures: Fukushima nuclear emergency - week three

• Interactive: Japan earthquake: Ian Sample on efforts to contain the nuclear accident

• Ian Sample , science correspondent
• guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 March 2011 16.53 BST
• Article history

Highly radioactive water is now being detected outside the containment area at Fukushima, experts have warned. Photograph: Tepco/AFP/Getty Images

The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts say, raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site.

The warning follows an analysis by a leading US expert of radiation levels at the plant. Readings from reactor two at the site have been made public by the Japanese authorities and Tepco, the utility that operates it.

Richard Lahey, who was head of safety research for boiling-water reactors at General Electric when the company installed the units at Fukushima, told the Guardian workers at the site appeared to have "lost the race" to save the reactor, but said there was no danger of a Chernobyl-style catastrophe.

Workers have been pumping water into three reactors at the stricken plant in a desperate bid to keep the fuel rods from melting down, but the fuel is at least partially exposed in all the reactors.

At least part of the molten core, which includes melted fuel rods and zirconium alloy cladding, seemed to have sunk through the steel "lower head" of the pressure vessel around reactor two, Lahey said.

"The indications we have, from the reactor to radiation readings and the materials they are seeing, suggest that the core has melted through the bottom of the pressure vessel in unit two, and at least some of it is down on the floor of the drywell," Lahey said. "I hope I am wrong, but that is certainly what the evidence is pointing towards."

The major concern when molten fuel breaches a containment vessel is that it reacts with the concrete floor of the drywell underneath, releasing radioactive gases into the surrounding area. At Fukushima, the drywell has been flooded with seawater, which will cool any molten fuel that escapes from the reactor and reduce the amount of radioactive gas released.

Lahey said: "It won't come out as one big glob; it'll come out like lava, and that is good because it's easier to cool."

The drywell is surrounded by a secondary steel-and-concrete structure designed to keep radioactive material from escaping into the environment. But an earlier hydrogen explosion at the reactor may have damaged this.

"The reason we are concerned is that they are detecting water outside the containment area that is highly radioactive and it can only have come from the reactor core," Lahey added. "It's not going to be anything like Chernobyl, where it went up with a big fire and steam explosion, but it's not going to be good news for the environment."

The radiation level at a pool of water in the turbine room of reactor two was measured recently at 1,000 millisieverts per hour. At that level, workers could remain in the area for just 15 minutes, under current exposure guidelines.

A less serious core meltdown happened at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania in 1979. During that incident, engineers managed to cool the molten fuel before it penetrated the steel pressure vessel. The task is a race against time, because as the fuel melts it forms a blob that becomes increasingly difficult to cool.

In the light of the Fukushima crisis, Lahey said all countries with nuclear power stations should have "Swat teams" of nuclear reactor safety experts on standby to give swift advice to the authorities in times of emergency, with international groups co-ordinated by the International Atomic Energy Authority.

The warning came as the Japanese authorities were being urged to give clearer advice to the public about the safety of food and drinking water contaminated with radioactive substances from Fukushima.

Robert Peter Gale, a US medical researcher who was brought in by Soviet authorities after the Chernobyl disaster, in 1986, has met Japanese cabinet ministers to discuss establishing an independent committee charged with taking radiation data from the site and translating it into clear public health advice.

"What is fundamentally disturbing the public is reports of drinking water one day being above some limit, and then a day or two later it's suddenly safe to drink. People don't know if the first instance was alarmist or whether the second one was untrue," said Gale.

"My recommendation is they should consider establishing a small commission to independently convert the data into comprehensible units of risk for the public so people know what they are dealing with and can take sensible decisions," he added.

Japan nuclear crisis: Seawater radioactivity 'rises'

Seawater near Japan's crippled nuclear reactors is said to have a much higher level of radioactive iodine than previously reported.

Water near the Fukushima Daiichi plant's reactor 1 contained radioactive iodine at 3,355 times the legal limit, a government agency said.

Earlier samples had been put at 1,850 times the legal limit.

But an official said the iodine would have deteriorated considerably by the time it reached people.

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Gabrielle Union Talks

Planned Parenthood

By Gabrielle Union on Mar 23rd 2011 

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With all of the recent controversy about Planned Parenthood being disproportionately placed in minority communities - and allegedly being the cause of many African-American babies being aborted - actress Gabrielle Union has decided to speak up.

For Union, the Planned Parenthood controversy hits a personal note: Her best friend, who lacked health care, was able to receive both screening and treatment for cancer. Even though Union's friend recently died from the disease, Union contends that Planned Parenthood still gave her friend a fighting chance.

At the age of 32, my girlfriend Kristen Martinez was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. She fought incredibly hard for five years but ultimately lost her battle with breast cancer on June 16, 2010.

We knew she wasn't going to make it this past summer, so I asked her, What's the one thing that you want young girls to take away, what do you want your legacy to be?

She said just to remind people and women, especially, that you are your own best advocate, and if you don't put you first, no one else will.

With all that's going on in the media about Planned Parenthood and abortions, I think the media is doing the public a great disservice. The fact that only 3 percent of the services that Planned Parenthood provides are abortions makes you wonder what's happening with the other 97 percent of what Planned Parenthood is doing.

The vast majority of the work that they do is preventative. Planned Parenthood provides low-cost reproductive information and care, which goes into providing contraception. For women who choose to keep their babies, they offer low-cost pregnancy services as well.

Planned Parenthood is providing vaccines, cervical cancer screenings, 830,000 breast exams, STD screenings and (overall) half-a-million HIV screenings. The way people are focusing now on Planned Parenthood is like they are taking one piece and deciding that the whole thing is bad, and that's just not the case.

As for Planned Parenthood's supposed targeting of African-American women, I think when you factor in socioeconomics and the fact that there are plenty of underprivileged and younger women who don't have access to proper health care and affordable contraception, you also see an increase in the number of African-American women getting abortions.

The reality of what Planned Parenthood is doing is trying to increase the number of planned pregnancies and give women the options of planning out their pregnancies by way of contraception.

That is the bulk of what Planned Parenthood is doing.

For a lot of women, the last stop for affordable health care and acceptable health care is Planned Parenthood. It's the place that a lot of people go to, certainly minorities, because you know it's the one place where you're not getting turned away when you're asking questions about reproductive care.

If we provide more access to quality and affordable contraception, and information, you're going to see those numbers go down across the board and not just in terms of the African-American community.

For women, and for society at large, we should care that Planned Parenthood's funding could get cut. If you look at the fact that a good chunk of the women that go to Planned Parenthood receive federal funding anyway and you realize this is where they're turning to go ... if you eliminate Planned Parenthood, think of all the STDs that will be spread, all of the women who won't be receiving preventative health care in terms of breast cancer, cervical cancer. Think of all the women who wouldn't get reproductive health and information. Cutting Planned Parenthood's funding does such a disservice to our already underserved community.

This should be the last place that should be cut.

One in five women will visit a Planned Parenthood at some point in their lifetime. We cannot eliminate the funding. It does not make good sense, it doesn't make good business sense, it doesn't make moral sense or health sense.

If you go to IStandWithPlannedParenthood, you can add your name to a petition asking Congress to stop Planned Parenthood from losing federal funding. Almost a million people are already signed up, but we just need to keep it going. Our elected officials want to hear from you, and there's strength in numbers.

The more numbers we can get saying we refuse to stand by idly and let you cut such a necessary institution like Planned Parenthood - they will respond to that. As people who want to eliminate the funding are rallying their troops, we need to rally ours, and it doesn't mean you need to be pro-life or pro-choice, it just means you don't want to see underprivileged women across the board stop receiving the health services that they so desperately need.

Gabrielle Union has starred in "The Perfect Holiday,""Meet Dave" and "Cadillac Records" and is the long-standing face of Neutrogena. She is currently filming a pilot and is an ambassador for the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the Young Survivor Coalition.

Whatever happened to Kwaito?

Here's what ...

 The highpoint of Kwaito may have passed but there's still life in the ol' dear. The genre emerged in Johannesburg the 1990s, spread all over South Africa and into neighbouring countries (Namibia, Zambia), but it was around the mid-90s that DJs in Europe and the States started to take notice, and suddenly the sound of the shebeens and taxi ranks of Johannesburg's townships went global.

The genre encompassed dress code, speech, dance, and was representative of township life, but what mostly lives on is the music: Kwaito is based on house music beats, but typically at a slower tempo and containing melodic and percussive African samples - which are looped - plus deep basslines and vocals (not always, but often), generally male, shouted or chanted rather than sung or rapped. Some referred to it as South Africa's Hip-hop, but it was more than that. If you want the full history with key players, and so forth, the Wikipedia page has a wealth of information.

Since the mid-2000s Kwaito's been losing out to the more international sound of South African House, so much so that if you're aren't a hard core music lover or DJ you could be forgiven for thinking the genre has disappeared completely. We love Kwaito, so we figured we'd pull together a dozen examples from just the last few months to show that, hey, it's still here and evolving, with many these days sounding more Housey than "traditional" Kwaito (Durban Kwaito uses faster House beats, and as a result that city pretty much wears the Kwaito crown these days), sometimes involving an R&B artist to give it some smoothness, but sometimes sticking to the old school template and still delivering the goods.

So here goes, and if you like what you hear, check out the recommended albums at the end of the post.

Zulu Love Letter - Skomplazi, ft Dj Nkoh

Hip Hop Hooray - DJ Cleo

Inseparable - Ma Africa (Zambia), Ft. DJ T-Boz

Pandula - Satlam (Namibia) Ft. Mushe (This is Gospel Kwaito)

Jabule - Dogg Mshasho (Namibia), feat. Biblos & Ompuff

Uzo'gcwala - Brickz, ft. Nhlanhla, Pro, Lungelo, Sashman, Mzekezeke

Inamandla - L'vovo Derrango (An example of Durban Kwaito)

Mr Uptight - Rhythmic Elements (Another very Housey Kwaito number)

Jika Uthi - Thebe

Vulamehlo - Emza (Another example of Durban Kwaito)

Owethu wena - DJ Fisherman, feat. Prof & Nuz (Durban Kwaito)

Forever Mine - Luvy, ft Arthur

RECOMMENDED ALBUMS
University of Kalawa Jazmee - Professor

World Premiere - Howza

Imphempho - Zola 

Irresistible - L'vovo

Real Deal - Mandoza

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snag Today Poetry Contest

 

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Welcome to the Snag Today Poetry Contest.  Any type of poetry-maximum of 50 lines-is eligible.  Prizes totaling $40 will be awarded including a top prize of $30.

Submission Period: Entries accepted March 1, 2011-July 31, 2011. Early submission is encouraged.

What to Submit: Any work of poetry up to a maximum of 50 lines. There are no restrictions on style or theme. Each entry should be your own original work. You may submit the same work simultaneously to this contest and to others, and you may submit works that have been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights.

Prizes and Publication:  First Prize: $30, Second Prize: $5, Third Prize $5.  Winning submissions will be featured on our homepage and posted in our featured articles section through August 31, 2011.

Entry Fee:  There is no reading fee for this contest. Since communication with entrants, announcement of winners, and confirmation of award payment are conducted via Snag Today website, all entrants must create a profile with valid email address.  Your information will not be shared or released in any way.

Eligibility:  Only Snag Today members ae eligible for participation.  Membership to Snag Today is free.

Deadline: All entries must be received by July 31, 2011.

How to Submit: Entries must be submitted via email. To enter, please include your name, email address and the title/s of your entry when submitting. It is not necessary to provide word counts for your entries. Please avoid fancy, hard-to-read typefaces. 

email submission to Snag Today Editor
deb@snagtoday.com

Please title your email "Snag Today Poetry Contest"

Please cut and paste your entry into the email.  Do not use an attachment.

Announcement of Results:  Winners of the contest will be announced on August 15, 2011.  Results will be posted on the Snag Today homepage at http://www.snagtoday.com.  Additionally, all Snag Today Members with a valid email address will receive email notification.

English Language: Writers of all nations may enter. However, the works you submit should be in English. If you have written a work in another language, you may submit an English translation.

Copyright: If your entry wins any cash prize, you agree to give Snag Today a nonexclusive license to publish your work online. You are free to publish your work in print or online elsewhere, and to enter it into other contests, whether or not you win a prize in this contest.  The author retains all rights to the work submitted.

 

Thank you for choosing the Snag Today Poetry Contest.  We look forward to reading your submissions.

 

 

Main Street Rag's
Annual Chapbook Contest

 

2011 Guidelines

Deadline: June 1, 2011  
Reading Fee: $17

* * * We prefer that entries for this contest arrive NO SOONER than March 1 since this contest comes right on the heels of the MSR Poetry Book Award. * * *

PRIZE: Winner receives $500 and 50 copies of chapbook and a one year subscription to The Main Street Rag. All entries receive a copy of the winning manuscript and are considered for publication.

Runners-up will be offered publication as well as a one year subscription to The Main Street Rag.

Every manuscript entered will be considered for publication .

Send between 24 and 32 pages of poetry, any style/form, no more than one poem per page. Please use 12pt type using Arial or Times New Roman.

Do Not Include Dedication and/or Credits/Acknowledgements Pages in entry.
For the purpose of fairness, it is important that judges know as little about the author as possible and these pages are not relevant to the judging process. If they should accidentally slip through the registration area, the author will not be eligible to win.

Include cover sheet with author’s contact information--name, address, phone number, and email address. The author's name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.

No manuscripts will be returned, so please do not send oversized SASEs. We prefer to notify by email, but if an author wants to use an envelope, please use a business-size (#10) envelope.

For notification of receipt of manuscript, entries can include a post card, but if they include an email address, we will send a verification of receipt via email.

Do not send anything USPS Return Receipt or Signature Receipt--we won't stand in line for these items and they will eventually be returned to you (when the US Postal Service gets tired of putting cards in our box). If you need confirmation that we received it, include a reliable email address or a stamped return post card.

Although MSR frowns on simultaneous submissions for our magazine, it is acceptable for our book contests. Upon notification, however, winner must immediately withdraw his/her mss from consideration elsewhere (or from the MSR Chapbook Contest--if the manuscript has been chosen winner in another contest).

All checks should be made payable to Main Street Rag, PO BOX 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001.

Since our goal with our contest is to select manuscripts for publication, we no longer disqualify manuscripts that do not follow guidelines exactly. They will still be considered for publication; however, they will not be eligible to WIN the contest.

The most common reason for disqualification (in the past) has been the inclusion of acknowledgments and author's credits. We try to catch these pages and discard them before the manuscripts get to readers since we prefer to have a blind reading. Unfortunately, they sometimes get missed. Rather than lose out on an opportunity to publish a good manuscript, we've decided to continue the judging, but eliminate the possibility of a cash prize for those who do not follow the guidelines.

 

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Email Submission Instructions

Main Street Rag does allow for email submissions, but the guidelines are even more specific, so please read them carefully before choosing this method and give yourself enough time to prepare the manuscript file properly.

Guidelines for email submissions

 

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Mailing Instructions:

All checks should be made payable to Main Street Rag, PO BOX 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001.

We recommend using US Postal Service Media Mail (within the US), but that takes longer to arrive, so DO NOT send it Media Mail if you are mailing it on or near the deadline. Why? because we distribute the LAST manuscripts to first round readers on June 8. Anything that has not arrived by the day before (June 7) will be excluded and the check returned in the SASE (if one has been provided--otherwise, it will be shredded).

DO NOT use clips or binding of any kind. We have THOUSANDS of clips here from years of submissions and we remove anything that comes in a binder and throw away the binder. If you want to pay for a binder and the shipping to get it here only to have it thrown away, that's your choice. It will not go to any readers in a binder of any kind.

DO NOT send anything that must be signed for (Signature Receipt or Express Mail) since it means having to stand in line to receive it (and we won't). And please don't use FED EX to send anything to our physical location since their local drivers are literacy challenged (they don't read instructions and we may not receive what you send as a result).

 

Contest Recommendations

 

 

AT LENGTH

Submissions

At Length will consider submissions of poetry and prose between January 1 and March 31 of 2011. Please see below for specific guidelines.

Poetry
We’re interested in poems and sequences that are at least 7 single-spaced pages long. Please send a Word document or PDF to poetry@atlengthmag.com. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but be sure to mention it in the body of the email, and if parts of the work have already appeared in other venues, please note that as well and provide all relevant details. We will attempt to respond to all submissions within one month, and we ask that you only submit one poem at a time.

Prose
We’re looking for fiction and non-fiction of at least 7,500 words in length. We welcome novellas, novel excerpts, memoirs, narratives, essays, and long short stories. No academic papers, please. Simultaneous submissions are fine; previously published pieces, not so much. Please send your work in a Word or .pdf file to prose@atlengthmag.com, along with a short biographical note. We’ll do our best to respond within a month.

Art
Additionally, At Length is seeking submissions from writers of all stripes for a recurring feature in its art section. The feature will include and promote prose pieces (essays, prose poems, letters-to-the-world) that explore one work of art. The first installment, an essay by poet Anna Journey on Remedios Varo’s Catedral vegetal, can be found here. Please send a query letter with a brief synopsis to At Length’s art editor, Elaine Bleakney, at art@atlengthmag.com.

Daisy Zamora

A native of Nicaragua, Daisy Zamora is one of the country's most distinguished poets. Her poems, essays, and translations have been translated into more than 14 languages and have appeared in more than 50 anthologies. Poet Sonia Sanchez has said, "Daisy Zamora's poems resound with life. Commitment. Struggle. Love. She has been a fighter for liberation and women's rights all of her life." In addition to being an award-winning poet, Zamora is also a painter and political activist. During Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution, she was a combatant for the Sandinista National Liberation Front and was the program director for the clandestine Radio Sandino during the final Sandinista offensive in 1979. After living in exile in Honduras, Panama, and Costa Rica she returned to Nicaragua and served as the Vice-Minister of Culture for the new government. In 2006, Zamora was honored as Woman Writer of the Year by the National Association of Artists in her native Nicaragua. Zamora currently lives in Managua, Nicaragua, and San Francisco.

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Wadada Movement by designers Asha & Ayanna Diaz. Models - Breanne Rajkuram, Ayanna Lynch, Chelsea Cambell.

 

Concept by Underdog the DJ