Beautiful Black Books featuring Jive Poetic!
Saturday, August 24th, 11:00 a.m. (PDT)
via Zoom
Join Tshaka Campbell for the next installment of Beautiful Black Books with guest Jive Poetic!
BBB is recurring program featuring black writers in conversation followed by a Q&A. It is a vessel of exchange as we bring black writers to our communities and our communities to these writers to learn about their sources of inspiration.
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Jive Poetic is a writer, organizer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BA in Media Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his MFA in Writing and Activism from Pratt Institute. In 2017, Jive was the first John Morning Award for Art and Service recipient. He founded the Insurgent Poets Society, Carnival Slam: Cultural Exchange, and co-founded the Brooklyn Poetry Slam. His work has been showcased on season four of TVONE’s Lexus Verses and Flow, PBS NewsHour, and BET. His poems have been published by the Academy of American Poets, No, Dear Magazine, and Toss The Earth. International recognition for his work has come from the British Arts Council, the Minister of Culture for Antigua and Barbuda, and various US Embassies in Australia, Brazil, and Poland. Jive has held residencies at Air Serenbe, Fort Belvoir Army Base, Rhode Island Writer’s Colony, Marble House Project, and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. When Jive is not touring or hosting, he is an assistant professor at St Francis College and teaches performance poetry workshops to underserved youth in New York City and the surrounding tri-state area.
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Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded, in part, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation, the City of San José's Office of Cultural Affairs, Poets & Writers, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, SVCREATES, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and generous giving from Brandenburg Family Foundation and Anne & Mark's Art Party.