NEW BOOK! 

AVAILABLE FROM BEACON PRESS, BOOKSHOP.org & wherever books are sold.

“Drawn from her experiences of being born in Philadelphia, into a Black family and a Black culture transported from the American South by the Great Migration, M. Nzadi Keita’s poetry sparks a profoundly hybrid gaze of the visual and the sensory.”

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Upcoming Events

10/5:     4 – 5 pm.  Decatur Book Festival: (Live) Reading. Emory Poetry Stage, Decatur, GA. Signing follows.

10/25:   7 pm PT/ 10 pm ET. (Virtual) El Gigante Poetry Series: Reading

 11/17:    5 – 7 pm. (Live) Wild Indigo Poetry Series: Reading. New American Cider, 6350 Germantown Ave. Phila. PA. 

11/18:   5:30 pm. (Live) Monday Poets Celebration Series: Reading.  Free Library of Phila., Donatucci Branch, 1935 W. Shunk St., Phila. PA. 

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/monday-poets/

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“One current poet, M. Nzadi Keita, has tried through literary imagination to give Anna a voice… Such poetry is not a historical source for Anna’s interior world. But it does provide us a language by which we can gaze into it.” David W. Blight author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

“ You caught sight of them across Lincoln Drive

in the back of a Caddy. Passing by”

Letters to Mt. Airy, West Side

Ideas, Invites, Leaps, Landings, & Collaborations

You have winnowed this speech down to three or four sentences, starting with your double-standard buster: Being the only woman in the house does not mean you were put on the Earth to feed them. With plain words you lasso the moment, leveled and calm: everybody at this table eats, so everybody should cook.