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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, April 7th, 5 PM PST\n\nMany marginalized writers celebrate the 
 moment that they receive "a seat at the table," and this is quite often 
 their goal. Yet, others of us believe that having a seat at the table is 
 another way of waiting to be included or invited to attend, thereby still 
 centering whiteness. This panel will focus on writers of color who are 
 creating their own tables, including Tongo Eisen Martin, Tara Betts, and 
 Neelanjana Banerjee.\n\n     Originally from San Francisco, Tongo 
 Eisen-Martin was recently named San Francisco's eighth poet laureate and is 
 a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration 
 and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He 
 is launching Black Freighter Press, a platform for building movement 
 culture and supporting Black literary arts, with a specific focus on 
 incarcerated poets, Bay Area poets of color, and Black women.\n     Tara 
 Betts is the author of the poetry collections Break the Habit, Arc & Hue, 
 and the forthcoming Refuse to Disappear. Aside from coediting several 
 anthologies, Tara is Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review and the 
 Lit Editor at Newcity. She is currently working on establishing The 
 Whirlwind Learning Center on Chicago's South Side as a space for arts 
 education, community space, and cultural programming.\n     Neelanjana 
 Banerjee's writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, PANK Magazine, 
 Virginia Quarterly Review, World Literature Today and many other places. 
 She is the Managing Editor of Kaya Press, an independent press dedicated to 
 Asian Pacific American and Asian Diasporic literature. She teaches writing 
 and literature classes at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. She lives 
 in Los Angeles, and is at work on a novel.\n\nThis event is the second 
 installment of a collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC 
 United to support marginalized writers, made possible by funds from the 
 California Arts Council.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/10/18840668.php
SUMMARY:Aunt Lute and POC United presents the Panel: Creating Our Own 'Table'
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/10/18840668.php
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