HARLEM RENAISSANCE

P3 PROJECTS

The Poetry Podship traveled back in time, landed and opened! “Flint Reads Poetry: Virtual Poetry Gallery” boasts three video installations, totaling over 50 poems, autobiographical information, recordings, and discussions recited by Flintstones and friends.

Flint’s Inaugural Poet Laureate is the recipient of the prestigious, Poets Laureate Fellowship Award, 2021 from the esteemed Academy of American Poets for her literary work and innovative programming:

Poetry Letters: Poetry as a 2nd Language!

The Academy also recognizes Zeta Beta Zeta Flint Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. as the 2021 community partner of the Poetry Letters initiative. Poetry Letters: Poetry as a 2nd Language presents:

▪ Flint Reads Poetry/ Poetry Voices of Flint, The virtual Poetry Gallery ▪ Poetry Paints in Collaboration with Mott

Warsh Collection, Stephanie James, Director and Curator Freeman Elementary School,

Principal Anna Johnson ▪ Poetry Pen Pals

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Harlem Renaissance poems were presented by my community partners, Zeta Beta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and the Zeta

Foundation of Flint. We were transported to 1920s and 30s where the verse of Langston Hughes reflected the rhythm of Jazz.

POETRY PODSHIP LANDS IN 1920 | HARLEM RENAISSANCE

PRESENTED BY FLINT’S FIRST POET LAUREATE SEMAJ BROWN AND ZETA BETA ZETA FLINT CHAPTER

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the “New Negro Movement“, named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement also included the new African American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and

Dr. Ladel Lewis recites “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes