Afro-American Writers - 2019 Community Read-in
We present portions of a community reading of the work Afro-American writers conducted at the John Jermaine Library in Sag Harbor in February 2019. It was jointly sponsored by the Library and Canios Cultural Café. The readers are: Rev. Kimberly Johnson, Nancy Myers, Bill Chaleff , Rev. Eda Lorello, Ursala Hegi, Bobbie Cohen, Daria Wishnia, and Gordon Gagliano. They read the work of: Washan Shire (Somali poet), Nicky Grimes, Venture Smith, Everett Hoagland, Audre Lorde, Daria Wishnia, Bryan Stevenson, and Mohamed Ali. LISTEN HERE: Also: Chandler Saint talks about the Venture Smith Project and his book about the colonial era freed slave Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith at Canios Books Sag Harbor Introduced by Canios' Maryann Calendrille. listen here