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Diamond Sharp's Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free?Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks appear throughout these poems, counseling the speaker as she navigates her own depression and exploratory questions about the “Other Side,” as do Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and other Black women who have been murdered by police. Sharp's poetry is self-assured, playful, and imaginative, reminiscent of Langston Hughes with its precision and brevity. The book explores purgatorial, in-between spaces that the speaker occupies as she struggles to find a place and time where she can live safely and freely. With her skillful use of repetition, particularly in her series of concrete poems, lines and voices echo across the book so the reader, too, feels suspended within Sharp's lyric moments. Super Sad Black Girl is a compassionate and ethereal depiction of mental illness from a promising and powerful poet.Join us for this livestream of the in-person book launch event for Super Sad Black Girl with Diamond Sharp, Eve Ewing, Raych Jackson and Jamila Woods. -------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Diamond Sharp is a poet and essayist from Chicago. Super Sad Black Girl is her debut collection of poems. Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, and most recently a novel for young readers, Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Rachel “Raych” Jackson is a writer, educator and performer. Her poems have gained over 2 million views on YouTube. She is the 2017 NUPIC Champion and a 2017 Pink Door fellow. Jackson recently voiced 'DJ Raych' in the Jackbox game, Mad Verse City. She voices Tiffany in Battu, an upcoming animation recently picked up by Cartoon Network. Her latest play, “Emotions & Bots”, premiered at the Woerdz Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. Jamila Woods is a Chicago-bred singer/songwriter and award-winning poet whose inspirations include Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison. Following the 2016 release of her debut album HEAVN, Woods received critical acclaim for her singular sound that is both rooted in soul and wholly modern. Her 2019 sophomore release LEGACY! LEGACY! featured 12 tracks named after writers, thinkers, and visual artists who have influenced her life and work. She is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and co-editor of BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic (2018). Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/W_yl0SZR050 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
The BreakBeat Poets Live! is a virtual, multi-generational showcase of some of the illest writers on the planet rock. Each chapter features writers and performers who are part of the Haymarket Books family. Mixing lofi soul instrumentals with funk influences and smooth vocals. Elton Aura has a unique knack for words, flow, and beat selection. He opened up for Noname on her Room 25 tour in 2019 and is in the later stages of his next project coming in 2020. Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017) and the forthcoming Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021). Aracelis Girmay is the author of the poetry books Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and the black maria, and the picture book changing, changing. She is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund and recently edited a new Selected of Lucille Clifton poems entitled How to Carry Water. --- Juan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father. He is the author of three poetry collections, including The Handyman's Guide to End Times, Winner of the 2019 International Latino Book Award. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondo Fellow, the Editor/Publisher of Pilgrimage Press, and Professor and Department Chair of English & World Languages at Colorado State University-Pueblo. --- José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His book, Citizen Illegal, won of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize and was named a top book of 2018 by NPR. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Poets House, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. Olivarez was awarded the Author and Artist in Justice award from the Phillips Brooks House Association and named a Debut Poet of 2018 by Poets & Writers. He is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. --- Willie Perdomo is the author of The Crazy Bunch, which recently won the New York City Book Award for poetry, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Smoking Lovely, winner of the PEN Open Book Award, and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. He is also a co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Best American Poetry 2019, and African Voices. He is currently a Lucas Arts Literary Fellow and teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy. --- Diamond Sharp is a poet and essayist from Chicago. She has performed at Chicago's Stage 773 and her work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio. She has been published in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Vice, Pitchfork, Lenny, PANK, and others. A Callaloo fellow, she has also attended the Wright/Hurston workshop and is a member of the inaugural Poetry Foundation Incubator class. Her debut book of poetry, Super Sad Black Girl, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books. Diamond is an alumna of Wellesley College. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/9fyjCPbIKCM Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
This week, Jasmine Guillory discusses her romance novel The Wedding Party with writer and poet Diamond Sharp. This conversation was recorded live at the American Writers Museum in July 2019. Quick programming note: this discussion contains explicit language and references to sex, it is a romance novel after all…Listener discretion is advised. We hope you [...]
This week, Jasmine Guillory discusses her romance novel The Wedding Party with writer and poet Diamond Sharp. This conversation was recorded live at the American Writers Museum in July 2019. Quick programming note: this discussion contains explicit language and references to sex, it is a romance novel after all…Listener discretion is advised. We hope you [...]
Summer Lewis - Diamond Sharp Welcome back, Peeps! Sign up for a free demo of the Hu-Friedy GreenLight Dental Compliance Center! We are happy to have present today’s episode brought to you by the Hu-Friedy Greenlight Dental Compliance. We both love that the GreenLight Dental Compliance Center by Hu-Friedy is an exclusive program that keeps all your infection prevention guidelines and regulations conveniently housed in one portal to help you transition your organization into digital program management. You’ll find more than convenience with GreenLight — you’ll also gain the confidence that comes from knowing your facility is in compliance. Sign up for your free demo with the link above. We are using GreenLight in our office now. It’s a great way for the whole office to stay up to date on the highest standard of sanitary protocol. And keep an eye out for the new Water Test Kit launching in 2021! Thanks Hu-Friedy! --- Today we are so proud to have a guest with a firm position in Irene’s top 8, a mother, and an entrepreneur keeping it together in the pandemic, Summer Lewis! Summer talks us through the early days of absolutely despising sharpening tools as a dental student, working as a dental assistant, and eventually founding her own business in 2018. Today, Ms. Lewis runs Diamond Sharp, a drive-up, same-day dental instrument sharpening business. Catch her and her team driving the blue van around Toronto and pretty soon, all over the US! As a regular of Diamond Sharp, I can say confidently that the cost and timeliness of their services are a no-brainer for any dental office. Her team is super nice and they are extremely reliable, especially in a pinch! We ask Summer these questions and much more: Should dental students graduate knowing how to sharpen tools? Can I work in the dental field without working in an office? What is the best way to sharpen dental tools? Can the Diamond Sharp bus be turned into a travelling karaoke club? Book your appointment with Diamond Sharp online now! http://www.diamondsharp.ca/ IG: @Diamond.Sharp --- Find more of our episodes at https://www.toothordare.ca/ Follow us on Instagram! Podcast IG: @toothordare.podcast Irene: @toothlife.irene Katrina: @thedentalwinegenist
What happens when Wellesley alumnae sit down for an open, candid conversation about their lives and careers, their hopes and fears, and the bond that connects them—their Wellesley experience? Wellesley alumnae of African descent from across the generations reflect upon the importance of Ethos and Harambee House to their experiences as women of color on campus. Featured alumnae: Karen Williamson ’69 and JudyAnn Bigby ’73; Pamela “Pamm” McNeil ’82 and Tracy Heather Strain ’92; Malika Jeffries-El ’96, Shelly Davis ’97, and Katrina Mitchell ’96; Liz Miranda ’02 and Natalie Gill-Mensah ’03; and Diamond Sharp ’11 and Ikhlas Saleem ’11. Edited and produced by Wellesley College, with interviews recorded by StoryCorps.
Diamond Sharp is a poet and essayist from Oak Park, whose words and presence celebrate the melancholy and the shadows we all carry in a way rarely seen in artist communities, organizing rooms, and simply in the world overall. A member of BYP-1oo and an editor for Rookie Mag, Diamond swings by AirGo Studio B (Daniel's house) for this week's episode while the station is getting fixed up. Recorded Wednesday 8/3/16 in Chicago Music from this week's show: mr. fox mr. fox - @squeakPIVOT Shadow Man (feat. @sabapivot, @sminoworld, 1992phoelix) - @noname
As promised, it’s Diamond Sharp, from Portland Maine! They stopped by a looong time ago with Impossible Hair, and by the time we got around to mixing their session, they had broken up. I hate it when that happens. We’ve grieved long enough. Let’s remember the good times we had. Song List: I Got Love […]
Impossible Hair (from Maryland) stopped in many moons ago while on tour with Diamond Sharp (guess who’s session is tomorrow!), and they both did very quick sessions. Fair warning: don’t let them lull to into a false sense of relaxation with the opening song. Song List: Streets of Laredo The Dog Kettles Sister Hand Tambourines […]
Summer is (un)officially here! Get out your finest whites and hit the town. Featuring The High Strung, Clock Hands Strangle, The Big Dissappointments, Antiques, The 85s, American Car, Titus Andronicus, Brother/Sister, George Lewis Jr., The Willard Grant Conspiracy, Logos Business Systems, Impossible Hair, Headband, Diamond Sharp, Hands and Knees, The Ladybug Transistor, MMOSS, Sam Jayne, […]
Kate's most bestest friend Liza is our guest, College Dropout-Beauty School Knockout, Liza decked a girl and her boss got deported, Kate pretends she is Mariah Carey, Girls are mean to each other, but guys do it too, Kate worries about being liked by customers, Episode III of the Starbucks-Dunkin Donuts wars, Kate almost does a spit take on the Microphone. Beauty School Knockouts like Extra Sugar, Kate doesn't like to wear baked goods, Liza likes to eat like French women, Matt ate in France, Kate Steals candy on Easter, Kate and Liza plot and scheme to be Sisters in Law, Liza's brother sucks in a Band, but in a good way, Joe S. Harrington comes into Java Net, Diamond Sharp breaks up, the Crew declares favorite chick rockers, Who would "behind the music" talk to about you, Southern People on cruise ships wear fanny packs and talk funny, Kate's first crush was Stone Phillips, Adventures in Babysitting, this week Matt cooks vegetarian for Liza, next week straight to the slaughter house, we want to go to the fair and eat our way out, Kate flirts with the ugliest carny, Liza loves Podcasting. Kate has to use the toilet. Email:talesfromthecounter@gmail.com, leave a voicemail at 207-221-2679. myspace at http://www.myspace.com/talesfromthecounter. The Music in this show has been provided by the Podshow podsafe music network at http://music.podshow.com, Check out our blog at www.talesfromthecounter.com