Beautiful Black Books features Tureeda Mikell! Saturday, May 27th, 11:00 a.m. PDT
Reading and in conversation with host Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Tshaka Menelik Imhotep Campbell.
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BBB is a 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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Tureeda Mikell:
Poet, Griot Story Medicine Woman, Woman of Truths, is an activist for holism, a Qi Gong Energy Therapist, lyricist, and executive director of, Tree of Life Foundation Literacy Health Project. She has published over seventy student poetry anthologies for at risk youth via CA Poets in the Schools, since 1989. She is a U. C. Berkeley ’96 Bay Area Writing Project Fellow who opened and or published with iconic poet activists, Amiri Baraka, cult film star, Saul William and Kenyan writer, professor and Pen International Award winner Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.
She was featured poet at De Young Museum’s Soul of A Nation, Fire Thieves, American Academy of Poets. Black Panther 55th Anniversary, Octavia Butler’s 70th Birthday, and was Eth-Noh-Tec, Nu Wa delegate poet/storyteller in Beijing, China in collaboration with the University of Beijing.
Published in numerous anthologies, her work can be seen in, Uncommon Ground, Storm Warning, City Light's Second Stutter, Freedom Lifted, U. C. B. Digital Papers E-Zine, Stanford University’s Extreme -Bay Area Poets, The Maynard, Temba Tupu, Emory University, The EastSide Arts Alliance’s Patrice Lumumba Anthology, and countless more nationally and internationally.
Her book, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine, published by Nomadic Press 2020, was reviewed by Chris Stroffolino, published in Ishmael Reed's Konch Zine, and was nominated for the California Book Award; and was placed on Small Press Distributor’s list of recommended reads and has sold out three times. Mikell has just completed her residency at the Museum of the African Diaspora sponsored by the Smithsonian.