IN THE LOUNGE QT: Rainbows Across the Diaspora Featuring Omotara James & Pamela Sneed. Curated by Phillip Ammonds

About This Show

A poetic and cultural journey exploring the rich lives of the LGBTQ community and their new literary works.

About The Artists

Omotara James is a poet and essayist. The daughter of Nigerian and Trinidadian immigrants, she lives and studies in New York City. Her poetry chapbook, “Daughter Tongue,” was selected by African Poetry Book Fund, in collaboration with Akashic Books, for the 2018 New Generation African Poets Box Set. Her debut full length collection, “Mama Wata,” is forthcoming in the Fall of 2018 from Siren Songs, of CCM press. She has been award fellowships from Cave Canem and Lambda Literary. Her awards include the Bridging the Gap Award for Emerging Poets and the Nancy P. Schnader Academy of American Poets Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Recluse, Nat.Brut, American Chordata, Winter Tangerine, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Seventh Wave, Arkansas International and elsewhere. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in poetry at NYU. Visit her at http://www.omotarajames.com to say “hi!”

Pamela Sneed is a New York based poet, writer and actress. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out, BOMB, and on the cover of New York Magazine. She has appeared in Art Forum and Hyperallergic.She is author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, published by Henry Holt in April 1998, KONG & Other Works, published by Vintage Entity Press (2009) and a chapbook Lincoln (2014). In 2015, she published the chaplet Gift with Belladonna. In 2018,  She published Sweet Dreams with Belladonna. She is a Visiting Professor at Columbia University 2017-18. She has performed internationally and recently joined the board of Visual Aids. She also appears in Nikki Giovanni’s The 100 Best African American Poems.

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 7:30pm

Free Admission

Estimated Runtime
45 minutes

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