Celebrating Black Poetry Past and Present

<p>Jack Marchbanks sits down with <a href='https://lifeandwrite.com/'>Dionne Custer Edwards</a>, <a href='https://streetlightguild902558154.wordpress.com/'>Scott Woods</a>, and <a href='https://www.issaid.net/'>Is Said</a> for a discussion about Black poetry using James Weldon Johnson's groundbreaking anthology The Book of American Negro Poetry as a springboard.</p> <p>Dionne Custer Edwards is a writer, educator, and the Director of Learning & Public Practice at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Scott Woods is a poet, writer, and the founder and director of the performing arts organization Streetlight Guild, and Columbus poetry legend Is Said, has received the King Arts Complex Legends & Legacies Award and was inducted into the Lincoln Theater Hall of Fame. </p> <p>This program is generously funded by Jack Marchbanks and The Kridler Family Fund at The Columbus Foundation.</p> <p>Special thanks to<a href='https://www.fomodeep.com/'> fo/mo/deep</a> for lending us their song, "Bourbon Neat" for the podcast!</p> <p>Find out about upcoming Bexley Public Library events at <a href='https://www.bexleylibrary.org/'>https://www.bexleylibrary.org</a></p> <p>Follow Bexley Public Library across platforms @bexleylibrary</p>