season 2 episode 11 - the unacknowledged legislators of the world

...in which the Black Ladies Brunch Collective and i talk the state of joy, poetic resistance, and luther vandross... the BLBC on instagram: @blackladiesbrunchcollective celseste doaks' site: www.doaksgirl.com Twitter: @thedoaksgirl Instagram: @thedoaksgirl the next BLBC reading: http://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/an_evening_with_mason_jar_press#.WNbsP-v3aK2 Not Without Our Laughter: http://www.masonjarpress.xyz/chapbooks-1/not-without-our-laughter-by-black-ladies-brunch-collective other things referenced: Grace Nichols - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Nichols reading Hurricane Hits England - http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/grace-nichols Derek Walcott - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/derek-walcott Cave Canem - http://cavecanempoets.org/ "won't you celebrate with me" by Lucille Clifton - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM7q_DUk5wU Chris Abani - http://www.chrisabani.com/