Black History Month - Poetry Reading and Discussion
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Dr. Scott W. Williams has 3 chapbooks, has edited 3 anthologies, and has 50+ poems and/or flash fiction appearing in magazines (Coffeehouse, Cryptic Magazine, Juniper Poetry, Punch Drunk Press, Oddball Magazine, Owl Light Magazine, Peach Mag, Rigorous Magazine, Rundelania, Mason Street Review, Moonstones Haiku 2024), several anthologies and newspapers.
For 50 years Williams has been a member of The Rochester Folk Art Guild where he was an Artist Blacksmith.
Raised in Baltimore, Williams has a PhD from Lehigh University. He is Mathematics Professor Emeritus of The University of Buffalo (SUNY). In Mathematics he has lectured on his research on five continents and has authored fifty research articles in Topology, Dynamics and Logic.
Doug Curry is a published poet, Harlem native, longtime Rochester dweller anmd lifelong blues lover, writer, record collector, historian and actor. He is the host of the highly regarded Blues radio shows in Rochester and Chicago. His work connects the dots between poetry, music, art and larger forces of Black culture and history. Doug's Rochester radio show can be found at WRUR: https://www.wrur.org/show/blacks-blues
Poet Eve Williams is a Sustainable Arts Foundation Awardee and past Buffalo representative to international slam competitions around the country. She was last ranked in the top 20 slam poets in the world and is the highest internationally ranked slam poet from Buffalo.
Eve has published videos of her work on a Facebook page titled Unfiltered which has millions in their estimated reach. Her poems “I’ve been having a hard time with white people lately,” “I know you Rachel Dolezal,” and “Black Girl Gone” have garnered national attention and she has been featured on several blogs including AfroPunk, SonofBaldwin and KinfolkKollective. She has published in the Buffalo News, A Flash of Dark: an Anthology, My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry, Peach Mag and Sun Magazine.
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