Four Poets: An Office of DEI Spotlight Event, Feb. 15
On Tuesday, Feb. 15, the Office of DEI is excited to welcome four celebrated, local poets who will read and discuss their work as part of Black History Month! This event will be virtual, from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m., and registration is required.
Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow and fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse. She received her MFA from American University. Previous publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review, Booth, Strange Horizons and CRAFT Literary. She’s the author of a novel, TreeVolution, and four collections: Circe’s Bicycle, Midnight at the Organporium, Political AF: A Rage Collection and Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Collection.
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of Haint, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective. She has received fellowships to attend the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is the recipient of a Meret grant from the Freya Project and a 2019 Sustainable Arts Grant. Her work can be read online and in many journals, including: Academy of American Poets, Gargoyle, Harvard Review, Little Patuxent Review, and more. She is the Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Tony Medina is the author/editor of 23 award-winning books for adults and young people, the most recent of which are Che Che Colé; Death, with Occasional Smiling; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy; I Am Alfonso Jones; and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky. Medina’s poetry, fiction, and essays appear in over 100 anthologies and literary journals. The first Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University, Dr. Medina holds a master’s and PhD from Binghamton University, SUNY.
Kim B. Miller is the Poet Laureate of Prince William County, VA, and the First African American Poet Laureate for PWC, VA. She was recently featured on WTOP and her poems have been published in African Voices magazine, a Portuguese haiku anthology, a DC newspaper, an interfaith anthology and several websites and books. Her latest poetry book is: My Poetry Is The Beauty You Overlook. She has received the 2021 DMV Best Business Award in the category of Arts & Entertainment, the 2021 DMV Renaissance “Haikuist” of the Year, and the 2019 Southern Fried Haiku Champion.
If you have any questions or need more information about this event, please contact the Office of DEI. This event is presented through a grant from the Micron Foundation.
Submitted by:
Ed Aymar, DEI Communications Coord., EAymar@nvcc.edu