Brownstone Reading Series Celebrates 3 Women Writers
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The Brownstone Reading Series celebrates Women's History Month by featuring writers/poets Brenda Connor-Bey (Thoughts of an Everyday Woman/An Unfinished Urban Folktale); Mariposa (Maria Teresa Fernandez); and Patricia Spears Jones (The Weather That Kills, Coffee House Press). Please come and enjoy the rich and wonderful writings of these dynamic poetic sisters in prose and poetry!Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010
Time: 3 pm
Place: 316 W. 137th Street (C Train to 135th St./Located off Edgecombe Ave.)
Price: Free & open to the public. Books by authors will be available and for sale.
For information call: 212 865-2982Brenda Connor-Bey: Poet Laureate for the Town of Greenburgh, NY, award-winning poet, writer and arts-in-education consultant, Brenda Conor-Bey is a co-founder of New Renaissance Writers Guild, founder of MenWem Writers Workshop, a member of the Harlem Writers' Workshop and the Poetry Caravan. In 2002 she was awarded the Outstanding Arts Educator Award from the Westchester Fund for Women and Girls and is a recipient of a CAPS award for poetry, four PEN awards for non-fiction, a NYFA for fiction and is a MacDowell, YADDO and Cave Canem Regional Fellow. Her first book, Thoughts of an Everyday Woman/An Unfinished Urban Folktale, is a collection of prose and poetry. She recently completed a chapbook of poetry, Through the Mists of Remembering, a collection of poetry, Crossroad of the Serpent, and is currently working on a novel, The House on Blackwell Lane.
Mariposa (Maria Teresa Fernandez) is an award winning Nuyorican poet from the Bronx. She is the author of Born Bronxeña: Poems on Identity, Love & Survival and has published articles and poetry in the Centro Journal, Urban Latino Magazine, New York Newsday, El Nuevo Dia, Hunt's Point Alive!, The Vieques Times, NYU's Brownstone Magazine and Conciencia Magazine, AHA! Hispanic Arts News, Resistance in Paradise: 100 Years of U.S. Colonialism, Drum Voices Volume 23, What's Up Magazine and Def Poetry Jam's Bumrush the Page.
A freelance writer, actor, educator, visual artist and human rights activist, Mariposa has performed at over 100 colleges and universities throughout the United States; major NYC venues including the Nuyorican Poets Café and the Joseph Papp Public Theater, as well as the Institute for Puerto Rican Culture and the Nuyorican Café in San Juan, Puerto Rico; the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa; and the 2001 Essence Music Fest in New Orleans where she, in the words of Susan Taylor, "mesmerized an audience of 5,000." Mariposa's poetry has been featured on the acclaimed HBO documentary "Americanos: Latino Life in the US", produced by Edward James Olmos, Nick Athas and Time Warner. In March 2002, Marisposa performed in V-Day Harlem as a member of the Vulva Choir in Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues at the Apollo Theater, which was co-produced by Rosie Perez and featured the likes of Selma Hayek, Lauren Velez, Rosario Dawson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Eve, Amie Lauriex and others.Patricia Spears Jones is a widely published poet, arts writer, playwright and author of the collection, The Weather That Kills from Coffee House Press and the play Mother produced by Mabou Mines. Poems are anthologized in Poetry After 911; bumrush, a defpoetryjam; Best American Poetry 2000; and Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard. Poems, arts writing and interviews have appeared in Bomb, Black Issues Book Review, Barrow Street, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, the Village Voice, Poetry Project Newsletter, The World, Essence, and the Boston Globe.