Feminine Pronoun Series no. 26: #BLACKJOY

Posted on September 13, 2016September 13, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

In this episode I spend time at the Hawthorne School for Girls, Missouri’s only public all girls school. Then, I head to an advanced screening of BIRTH OF A NATION. I end at a wonderful event celebrating my dad’s forty years as poet laureate of East St. Louis, Illinois.

The Feminine Pronoun Series #25: Ferguson is Everywhere

Posted on August 26, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

In this episode I reflect on the impact of Michael Brown’s murder and the Ferguson Uprising on my social justice advocacy, my writing, my teaching and my parenting. An extra special thanks is owed to the ARTIVISTS and to Reverend Sekou and the Holy Ghost for the incredible song, “We Comin” that a...

The Feminine Pronoun Series #23: These Are the Times That Try Women’s Souls

Posted on August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

In this week’s vlog I watched the democratic convention and spent time with the Hurston Hughes Scholars. HHS is a self organized group of black parents and teachers who read black literature and invite guests like me and fellow poet Cheeraz Gormon to share our work with them. Coincidentally, I wa...

How to Grieve and Dream at the Same Time

Posted on July 19, 2016July 19, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

This week’s vlog follows me through a day of workshop with the inimitable Bhanu Kapil. Bhanu Kapil is a conceptual poet who recently worked for 15 years at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Sponsored by the Pulitzer Arts Center, this day long experience for metro area poets was na...

The Global Reach of Blackness

Posted on June 25, 2016June 25, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

Today I presented about Fannie Lou Hamer. This is a presentation I’ve done many times now, but because of the audience it was quite different. Because the audience was European and specifically people from the Balkan Peninsula, I stopped much more frequently to explain terms. I spent time on “sha...

“Friend is Worth More than a Dollar”

Posted on June 25, 2016June 25, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

Today I rose super thankful for not having to sleep in the airport, and then slog through an eight hour flight, a two hour flight, and then a two and half hour drive . . . unwashed. My grandmother used to say, “A friend is worth more than a dollar.” Her reasoning being, if […]...

A Special FATHER’S DAY episode of the FEMININE PRONOUN Series (#19)

Posted on June 14, 2016June 14, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

This is a “very special episode” of the FEMININE PRONOUN Series. Father’s Day is coming up and I am the daughter of a Poet. Eugene B. Redmond is a foundational Black Arts Movement poet, professor emeritus, cultural griot, and author of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro American Poetry. I may be bia...

The FEMININE PRONOUN Series #18: #BLACKWOMANMAGIC

Posted on May 31, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

The professor is IN. IN the graduation line at work. IN the DaDumDun celebration in East St. Louis, Illinois, and about to get IN TROUBLE with my girl in THE LOU:) Get IN to this episode as I show you how the #blackwomanmagic works its way IN to your soul:)

The FEMININE PRONOUN series # 16: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Posted on May 17, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

This episode finds me moving from my various roles of artist, daughter, and mother. What’s cool is I get to inhabit all of them at the same time! From a multi media poetry reading with my father for the nine network, to Cinco de Mayo on Cherokee Street, to a wonderful Mother’s Day breakfast with ...

The FEMININE PRONOUN Series #15: Poets are Witches

Posted on May 10, 2016 by treasureshieldsredmond

I flew to New England and read my work at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. While there, I stayed in Salem, Massachusetts and read with two other sister poets and fellow Cave Canem alumnae, Jarita Davis and Antoinette Brim. Were we like a coven? Maybe. Check out this witchy episode where I cast ...

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