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THIS Thursday, June 25th, Osayande will be the featured poet for the "Renowned Poets & Authors" and the "Poetry in the Park" series sponsored by the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission. The event will take place on the grounds of the Historic Hopkins House at Cooper River Park located at 250 South Park Drive, Haddon Township, NJ 08108. The event is free and begins at 7 pm. An open mic will follow! Ewuare Osayande is the 2006 recipient of the Walt Whitman Arts Center’s Vanguard Writer’s Award. In April of that same year Osayande became the first poet to have a symposium on his body of work at Temple University’s Poet Series sponsored by The Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. Osayande was the first Poet-in-Residence for the African American Studies Program at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ (2002-2004). His book of poems, Blood Luxury, published internationally by Africa World Press, features an introduction by world-renowned poet Amiri Baraka. Osayande’s poetry is featured in several anthologies including This Poem is Sponsored by: Poems in the Face of Corporate Power by Corporate Watch, What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race and the State of the Nation (South End Press 2007) and Mourning Katrina (Furious Flower 2009). Osayande's poems have also been published in the international poetry collection In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 4 as well as the anti-war anthology All the Days After. His latest collection of poetry is entitled Whose America? Poet Askia M. Toure best captures Osayande’s poetic spirit when he writes, “In the Black Arts Tradition of Amiri and Abiodun, Askia and Larry Neal, Sis. Sonia and Jayne Cortez, Ewuare Osayande comes forth singing out of Philly's grim promise. . ." To contact Ewuare X. Osayande: |
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