Open Mic & Reading featuring Gloria Burgess

Date: Nov. 20, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center (ORSCC) Rm. 206
This event is free!

Please join us! Come early to sign up for open mic.

About the featured reader:

Gloria Burgess fuses memory and ancestral presence into her poetry and performances. She celebrates her deep connection to her African American, Native American, and Celtic heritage. A poetry fellow with Cave Canem, a collective of poets and writers of the African Diaspora, her poetry appears in several anthologies, including The Ringing Ear and Gathering Ground, and in movable and permanent installations, including on a bridge at Brown University. Gloria’s poetry has also been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and a PBS film on social activism and the arts. She is currently working on a children’s picture book about her father’s life-changing relationship with William Faulkner. Her website is www.gloriaburgess.com.