TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! ✊🏾💫
Get ready for our third speakeasy of the year! 💫
WINTER IN AMERICA:
The SpeakEasy • Version - TIPPING POINTS
🗣️Hosted by: Ayodele
@wordslanger Nzinga,
Poet Laureate of
@oakland
💫 : FEATURING:
🎼 Musical Guest: LIGHT 💡
& Special guest: 🗣️: Tureda Mikell
@storymedicinewoman
(Tureeda Ture Ade Mikell)
Storymedicinewoman, author, award-winning poet, cultural activist, researcher, Black Panther
Alum, hell bent on asserting life, published 73 student classroom anthologies, 5 chapbooks, and two
full length poetry/prose collections. Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine, nominated for the
California Book Award published by (Nomadic Press 2020) and, The Body: Oracle of Memory (2024 Black
Lawrence Press NY). She has traveled, Zoomed, and has been anthologized in over eight anthologies,
nationally and internationally in the past year, and is Berkeley Poetry Festival’s 2024 Lifetime
Achievement Award recipient. Contact her on -FB - Instagram - LinkedIn - tureedamikell.com
🗣️: Garrett Murphy
Garrett Murphy, an Oakland resident, is well known in the Bay Area literary scene as a political and human nature satirist. He has written several books of poetry and prose, among them Now Showing, What We Claim...What We Are, and the most recent one, Murphy’s Log.
🗣️: OPEN MIC! 💫
BAM HOUSE
1540 BROADWAY
OAKLAND, CA
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