great weather for MEDIA welcomes the fabulous literary organization Tribes as guest curators for each Wednesday in February to celebrate Tribes#16: The Black Lives Matter Issue.
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Born and raised in California, granddaughter of documented and undocumented immigrants, devorah major served as San Francisco’s Third Poet Laureate (2002-2006). She has seven books of poetry, two novels and several poems, essays and short stories published. She has performed her work frequently with musicians, some of whom are Mark Izu, Destiny Muhammad, Marcus Shelby, Babatunde Lea, Anthony Brown, and Richard Howell. In June 2015 major premiered her poetry play Classic Black: Voices of 19th Century African-Americans in San Francisco, with music composed and performed by Destiny Muhammad. at the San Francisco International Arts Festival. devorah major also presents her work nationally and internationally with and without musicians. She has been a participant in international poetry festivals in Italy, Belgium, Bosnia, Jamaica, and Venezuela, and performed her poetry in France, the Bahamas and Germany. In 2022 she received Italy’s Regina Coppola International Literary Award performing in Sardinia and Northern and Southern Italy
http://www.devorahmajor.com
Tribes #16, The Black Lives Matter Issue, with Guest Editor Ishmael Reed, Art Editor Danny Simmons, and Assistant Editor Margaret Porter Troupe, is now available for purchase.
Tribes #16, The Black Lives Matter Issue, is a full color, 8’x 10’ print journal, featuring visual art, poetry and prose, from emerging and established revolutionary artists of our time, celebrating the Black Lives Matter movement and speaking to the issues that propelled its formation and growth.
Tribes #16 includes art and writing by nearly 40 vital artists, including: Anthony Barboza, Gina Beavers, Lamont Steptoe, Tony Medina, Kevin Powell, Tracy K. Smith, Walter Mosley, Nile Livingston, Nashira Priester, Quincy Troupe, Aisha T. Bell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rosy Keyser, Kalam Mikael, Jerome China, John Simms and others.
