Autum Ashante has been mentioned on the Albany Poets BBS recently concerning the controversy surrounding her poetry and background.
“A 7-year-old prodigy unleashed a firestorm when she recited a poem she wrote comparing Christopher Columbus and Charles Darwin to “pirates” and “vampires” who robbed blacks of their identities and human rights.”
Link to BETTER OR VERSE By DAVID ANDREATTA Education Reporter – New York Post Online Edition: News
Spencertown Academy Arts Center presents All Write, Columbia: Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference, November 7-10.
Poet Kathleen McCoy will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany on Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 7:30PM.
On September 15th, the Hudson River Coffee House in Albany hosted the bi-monthly “St. Rocco’s for the Dispossessed” reading. The September reading featured Mitch Manning, Julian Mostachetti, and Co-Editors of The Doris Billie Chernicoff and Tamas Panitz.
