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Join us for a powerful evening celebrating the publication of poet and activist Ewuare X. Osayande's Our Breath is the Whisper of Our Ancestors' Defiance: The 30 Year Poetry Anthology. Including poetry from previously published books along with new poems, this anthology is the crowning achievement of a poet-scribe who remains a faithful witness to the freedom stride of his people. In Our Breath, Osayande is our impassioned ambassador of Blackness, extolling the virtues of justice as love in poems that read like psalms and proverbs for a world on fire. Following the reading, Osayande will be joined in conversation with Dr. Joyce A. Joyce, Temple University professor and author of Ijala: Sonia Sanchez and the Africana Poetic Tradition.

Poet, publisher and political activist Ewuare X. Osayande is the author of several books including Blood Luxury with an introduction by Amiri Baraka and Black Phoenix Uprising, both published by Africa World Press. A former adjunct professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University, he is the founding editor of The Poetariat, an international social justice poetry journal. Presently, he is completing a juris doctorate in Washington, DC.