2020 Afro-American writer read-in

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We present a celebration of Afro-American writers recorded in February 2020  at Canios Books, Sag Harbor.

The readers were members of the community including:


Nancy Myers reading Haiku for Harriet Tubman by Sonia Sanchez.
Gloria Brown reading the work of Zora Neale Hurston
Lora Tucker reading from Jazz in Jail by Luis Reyes Rivera
Eda Lorello reading the poetry of Everett Hoagland
and Canios’ Maryann Calendrille reading from The Street by Ann Petry 

Listen here

 

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