Thinking the Practice of Black Feminist Poetry

Poet Cheryl Clarke will read from her published work, with an emphasis on poetry, feminism, blackness as an integrated and integral practice- and struggle. By My Precise Haircut is her most recent book of poetry from The Word Works Books (2016 ).
Cheryl Clarke is the author of five books of poetry, Narratives: poems in the tradition of black women (1982; digitized, 2014); Living as a Lesbian (1986/2014), Humid Pitch (1989), Experimental Love (1993), After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (2005), and The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry 1980-2005 (2006). Her fifth book of poetry, By My Precise Haircut (2016), is now available from The Word Works Press. With Steven G. Fulllwood, she co-edited To Be Left With the Body (2008), one of a series of communal works for black gay and bisexual men produced by AIDS Project/LA.