Pittsburgh Welcomes ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Posted on July 5th, 2010 by bonita lee penn

National best selling author will be holding a book signing at the Joseph-Beth Booksellers, South Side Works at 7:00Pm on Wednesday, July 7th.
ReShonda is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc, and recently voted a Top 25 Woman of Houston by Rolling Out Magazine.
She is the national [...]

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Cave Canem Poets / City of Asylum

Posted on July 4th, 2010 by bonita lee penn

Pittsburgh’s Poetry on the North Side Streets
June 24, 2010
Contributed by Dessie Bey
Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, founders of Cave Canem explained the name of their Organization.
Entryway mosaics were preserved in the ancient remains of Pompeii, Italy.  In one particular house “There on the left as one entered…was a huge dog with a chain round its [...]

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City of Asylum/Pittsburgh JUNE Poetry Readings

Posted on June 17th, 2010 by bonita lee penn

Thursday – June 24th
Readings begin at 7:30 p.m. in a tent on Monterey Street between Sampsonia and Jackson streets.
Cave Canem, national organization for African-American poets will be featured. Scheduled to read are Colleen McElroy, Carl Phillips, Claudia Rankine and Sapphire. It’s part of Cave Canem’s annual poets retreat at the Greensburg campus of the [...]

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