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Denice Frohman - "Poetry of Resistance"

Date & Time

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Category

Performance

Location

Kathleen Ludwig Global Village Center, Schonberg Room

9, Suydam Street New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

Contact

Anette Freytag

Information

Sponsored by SEBS-Department of Landscape Architecture ISGRJ - Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, New Brunswick Campus DRC- Douglass Residential College

The Margaret O. Cekada Memorial Lecture for 2024 presents Denice Frohman - "Poetry of Resistance"

The Department of Landscape Architecture partners with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and the Douglass Residential College will bring renowned poet Denice Frohman to the Cook/Douglass Campus.

Denice Frohman will perform "Poetry of Resistance," and will focus on her environmental justice work and recent work with the Climate Futurism Group in her lecture. 

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DENICE FROHMAN is a poet and performer from New York City. A Pew Fellow and Baldwin-Emerson Fellow, she’s received support from CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she’s featured on hundreds of stages from The Apollo to The White House. Recently, she debuted her one-woman show, Esto No Tiene Nombre, centering the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. She lives in Philadelphia.

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