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Detroit Poet Laureate jessicaCare moore, has relaunched as an imprint of Amistad/HarperCollins, celebrating its first publication: Every Where Alien by poet Brad Walrond. Now co-run by moore and Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary Agency, MBP is committed to publishing revolutionary works by leading and emerging Black voices in poetry and the performing arts.
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Brad Walrond
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Barbara Fant
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BARBARA FANT
Barbara Fant has been writing and performing for over 15 years. She competed in 9 National Poetry Slam competitions, and she is a World Poetry Slam finalist. She is the author of two poetry collections, Paint, Inside Out (2010) and Mouths of Garden (2022). Her work has been featured in the Academy of American Poets, Electric Literature, McNeese Review, The Ohio State University Press, Button Poetry, and Def Poetry Jam, amongst others. She has received residencies in Havana, Cuba and Senegal, West Africa.
BRAD WALROND
Brad’s poetics, performance, and multi-disciplinary work interpolate between virtual reality, identity formation, and human consciousness at the intersection of race, gender, sex, and desire. By amplifying and interrogating the great power and contractions inherent to identity, Brad aims with his work to provoke futurist explorations of how we co-create historical, remembered, and imagined time. The urgency that suffuses his work asks how we can cultivate habitable futures worthy of the common threads of our human inheritance. Walrond’s debut collection, Every Where Alien, focuses on the author’s own Black queer exploration of the world, and how these experiences map onto the discovery of co-occurring art and resistance movements among New York City’s underground communities—communities like the New Black Arts Movement, the New York House Ballroom Scene, Black Rock Coalition, Underground house dance and music community, and the Black queer political arts and activist movements that arose in response to the ravages of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
jessica Care moore
JESSICA CARE MOORE IS ONE OF THE LEADING VOICES OF HER GENERATION. AN AWARD-WINNING POET, RECORDING ARTIST, BOOK PUBLISHER, ACTIVIST, CULTURAL ARTS CURATOR, AND FILMMAKER, SHE IS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND FOUNDER OF BLACK WOMEN ROCK! - DAUGHTERS OF BETTY, A 20-YEAR-OLD ROCK & ROLL INSTITUTION, CONCERT AND EMPOWERMENT WEEKEND, AND SHE IS THE FOUNDER OF THE LITERACY DRIVEN 501C3, THE MOORE ART HOUSE. HER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION IN DETROIT DEDICATED TO ELEVATING LITERACY THROUGH THE ARTS IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND SCHOOLS.
Regina Rooks
Ms. Regina Brooks is the founder and CEO of Serendipity Literary Agency NY, the largest African American-owned agency in the US. She has represented and established a diverse base of award-winning clients in adult and young adult fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature.Currently the President of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA), Brooks is also the co-producer of the People of Publishing Conference, former co-producer of the U.S. Book Show, and a founding member of Literary Agents of Change (LAOC) and the Black Book Accelerator. She is a board member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Women’s Media Group, New York Women in Film and Television, and the National Book Foundation’s Book Council
Brooks is the author of Writing Great Books for Young Adults: Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Getting Published (Sourcebooks), You Should Really Write a Book: How to Write, Sell, and Market Your Memoir (St. Martins Press), and Essence Magazines quick pick children’s book, Never Finished, Never Done (Scholastic).
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