Black Abstractions:
A Poetry Reading
Join us for a night of poetry from an all Black femme lineup. Black abstractions refers to an expansiveness within Black poetics. On February 5th, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from four Black femme poets approaching the page with their own specificity, reminding us that Blackness—and its expressions in art—contains multitudes.
Dylan Gilbert (she/her)
is a Brooklyn based poet, editor, curator, and educator from the Midwest. She holds her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and is a founding member of Saltlick Collective. Her work often deals with grief, girlhood, Blackness, and lineage. Dylan’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Maine Review, Black Warrior Review, Plumwood Mountain Journal, Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere.
Kindall Gant (she/they)
is a Black femme interdisciplinary poet and New Orleans native based in Brooklyn. She experiments with visual storytelling as liberation bringing poems into conversation with expressive forms like film, visual art, music and photography. They have received support from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Watering Hole, Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim, and Ma’s House among other arts institutions. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and appears in Seedlings, TORCH, 1619 Speaks, Brooklyn Poets, The Poetry Society of New York’s Milk Press, and Obsidian. Their book The Harlem Table is forthcoming from Phaidon.
Tangie Mitchell (she/her)
is a poet from North Carolina. Her work centers personal and collective histories of the Black American South and has been featured in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, No, Dear, Poetry Wales, Mosaic and more. She is a 2024 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, a Water Hole fellow, and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation.
Nicole Alexander (she/her)
is a poetess and educator based in Brooklyn. She graduated from Syracuse University in 2020, earning a BA in English and textual studies with a concentration in creative writing. During the warmer months, Nicole writes personalized poems for strangers in NYC parks for her social art project, A Poem, From Me To You. Her chapbook, Why I Love Dreaming, was released in 2024.