The Bailout Project is thrilled to be participating in Brew & Forge Poetry Night: A Celebration of BIPOC Poetry in the Valley. We hope to see you there!

Via Northampton Arts Council: Please join us for the first event organized by Franny Choi, the new Poet Laureate of Northampton, and Brew & Forge, an organization that builds connections between writers, artists, and social justice movements. Along with a reading by Franny, this event will showcase poets of color from across the Pioneer Valley and introduce attendees to powerful grassroots organizing happening locally. Readers include Jai Dulani, Abigail Chabitnoy, Lyrical Faith, Omkari Williams, and Cameron Awkward-Rich. Celebrate the richness of BIPOC poetry in our region, learn about local initiatives, and support writers and activists working for racial justice!

Admission is free. Donations are welcome and will go toward Brew & Forge’s work supporting poets and community organizers of color in Western Mass and across the Northeast.

Friday, March 1, 2024
Northampton Center for the Arts Flex Space at 33 Hawley
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

RSVP HERE


ABOUT:

Franny Choi is the author of three poetry collections: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022), a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), winner of the Elgin Award for Science Fiction Poetry, and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). Their writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Paris Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. They are Faculty at Bennington College and the founder of Brew & Forge. The current Poet Laureate of Northampton, Franny is at work on a forthcoming essay collection. You can see their work at www.frannychoi.com.

Brew & Forge’s mission is to amplify the collective power of writers to alchemize dreaming and build capacity in movements for liberation, justice, and survival. Taking to heart Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga’s assertion that change requires both “the witch and the warrior, the myth-smasher and the myth-maker,” Brew & Forge is currently planning for the 2024 Witches & Warriors Retreat for BIPOC poets and community organizers. See more at www.brewandforge.com