First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic

First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

The featured readers are: Abegunde and Eric Rensberger

Come early to sign up for Open Mic!

Maria Hamilton Abegunde is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. She is the commissioned poet for the Sister Song and Ancestral Masquerades exhibitions. Her research, creative work, and teaching address violence, genocide, sexual violence, historical and generational traumas, contemplative practices, memory, and West African-based healing practices. Her most recent and upcoming works can be found in the books Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine Revolution, So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth, and in the journals Obsidian, North Meridian Review, Massachusetts Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and FIRE!!!. Abegunde is a Cave Canem, Sacatar, Ragdale, and NEH summer fellow. She is currently a Black Earth Institute fellow, and over the next three years will complete a project that integrates art, spirituality, and social justice.

Eric Rensberger is a Bloomington poet and writer who finds subject matter in his daily life. His daily life includes sunrise, preoccupations, fantasies, stray thoughts, memories, feelings, and sunset. Much of his work can be found on the website ericrensbergerpoetry.net.