[Comicsstudiessociety] Feb 18: P&P Live! The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry - a poetry panel

[Mike Rhode]

P&P Live! The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero
Poetry - a poetry panel
Friday, February 18, 6:00 pm
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The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
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By Gary Jackson
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 (Editor), Len Lawson
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*The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics' characters such as Black Panther,
Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a
proliferation of poetry in this genre--receiving wide literary and popular
attention.*

*This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets who have written
verse within this growing tradition. In addition, the anthology will also
feature the work of artists showcasing their interpretations of
superheroes, Black comic characters, Afrofuturistic images from the African
diaspora. **The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero
Poetry* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781949467673__;!!KGKeukY!myDboNnd2PwTSwKjF0Ak6HFAbTrDLFsgO0_b5xezcIRhlnCBpX4muQIKCYA4ap7nSyFbQh3EYAKN$ >

*Moderators:*

*Gary Jackson* is the author of the poetry collection *Missing You,
Metropolis* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781555975722__;!!KGKeukY!myDboNnd2PwTSwKjF0Ak6HFAbTrDLFsgO0_b5xezcIRhlnCBpX4muQIKCYA4ap7nSyFbQjlsae0b$ > (Graywolf,
2010), which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His poems have
appeared in numerous literary journals including Callaloo, Tin House, Los
Angeles Review of Books, and Crab Orchard Review.

*Len Lawson* is the author of *Chime*
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780998935867*about__;Iw!!KGKeukY!myDboNnd2PwTSwKjF0Ak6HFAbTrDLFsgO0_b5xezcIRhlnCBpX4muQIKCYA4ap7nSyFbQloyck2P$ > (Get Fresh Books,
2019), the chapbook *Before the Night Wakes You* (Finishing Line Press,
2017), and co-editor of *Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race* (Muddy Ford
Press, 2017). He has received fellowships from Tin House, Callaloo, Vermont
Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His website is
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.lenlawson.co__;!!KGKeukY!myDboNnd2PwTSwKjF0Ak6HFAbTrDLFsgO0_b5xezcIRhlnCBpX4muQIKCYA4ap7nSyFbQoSXHSH-$ .

*Contributors:*

*Anastacia-Renee* is a writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDx
Speaker and podcaster. She is the author of *(v.)*
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781939568342__;!!KGKeukY!myDboNnd2PwTSwKjF0Ak6HFAbTrDLFsgO0_b5xezcIRhlnCBpX4muQIKCYA4ap7nSyFbQsY3bpUo$ > (Black Ocean) and *Forget
It* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780997952445__;!!KGKeukY!myDboNnd2PwTSwKjF0Ak6HFAbTrDLFsgO0_b5xezcIRhlnCBpX4muQIKCYA4ap7nSyFbQqYzWK6I$ > (Black Radish) and,
Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere and Sidenotes from the Archivist
forthcoming from Amistad (an imprint of HarperCollins). Recently she was
selected by NBC News as part of the list of "Queer Artist of Color Dominate
2021's Must See LGBTQ Art Shows." Anastacia-Renee was former Seattle Civic
Poet (2017-2019), Hugo House Poet-in-Residence (2015-2017) and Arc Artist
Fellow (2020). Her work has been anthologized in: Home is Where You Queer
Your Heart, Furious Flower Seeding the Future of African American Poetry,
Afrofuturism, Black Comics, And Superhero Poetry, Spirited Stone: Lessons
from Kubota’s Garden, and Seismic: Seattle City of Literature. Her poetry
and fiction have appeared in, Hobart, Foglifter, Auburn Avenue, Catapult,
Alta, Torch, Poetry Northwest, Cascadia Magazine, Ms. Magazine and others.
Renee has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook,
VONA, Ragdale, Mineral School, and The New Orleans Writers Residency.

*Casey Rocheteau*, a writer, an artist, and a historian, is the author of
two collections of poetry: *Knocked Up On Yes* (2012) and *The Dozen*
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781943977109__;!!KGKeukY!myDboNnd2PwTSwKjF0Ak6HFAbTrDLFsgO0_b5xezcIRhlnCBpX4muQIKCYA4ap7nSyFbQp-wMiOZ$ > (2016). In the
multi-genre works, Rocheteau draws on documentary and archival sources and
frequently utilizes techniques such as collage to explore issues of race,
gender, trauma, and mental illness. Their work has been published widely in
journals and publications such as LitHub, The Offing, Barnes & Noble
Review, among others. Rocheteau’s visual art has been exhibited at
Cranbrook Art Museum and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

*Ashley M. Jones* is the Poet Laureate of the State of Alabama (2022-2026).
She holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she
is the author of *Magic City Gospel*
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781938235269*about__;Iw!!KGKeukY!myDboNnd2PwTSwKjF0Ak6HFAbTrDLFsgO0_b5xezcIRhlnCBpX4muQIKCYA4ap7nSyFbQjhvjuq8$ > (Hub City Press
2017), dark / / thing (Pleiades Press 2019), and REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City
Press 2021). Her poetry has earned several awards, including the Rona Jaffe
Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers
Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature
Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton
Poetry Prize, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She was a finalist for
the Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship in 2020, and her
collection, REPARATIONS NOW! was on the longlist for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker
Award for Poetry. Her poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN,
POETRY, The Oxford American, Origins Journal, The Quarry by Split This
Rock, Obsidian, and many others. She co-directs PEN Birmingham, and she is
the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival. She teaches in the
Creative Writing Department of the Alabama School of Fine Arts, and she is
part of the Core Faculty of the Converse University Low Residency MFA
Program. She recently served as a guest editor for Poetry Magazine.

*Cortney Lamar Charleston* is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs.
His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry
Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. He began writing and performing poetry as a
member of The Excelano Project when he was an undergraduate studying
economics and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His poetry
is a marriage between art and activism, and a call for a more involved and
empathetic understanding of the diversity of the human experience. In 2017,
Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg
Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry
editor at The Rumpus. His most recent work, *Doppelgangbanger*
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781642592658__;!!KGKeukY!myDboNnd2PwTSwKjF0Ak6HFAbTrDLFsgO0_b5xezcIRhlnCBpX4muQIKCYA4ap7nSyFbQqixdXDH$ >, was released last
March.


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