Join us for a transformative afternoon of poetry and conversation as celebrated poets Mahogany L. Browne and Nikita Gill come together to honour International Women’s Day with their words of power, honesty, and perseverance. This intimate lecture and reading will explore the intersections of identity, empowerment, and the role of poetry in shaping a better world.
Come and celebrate the power of women’s voices and stories with these extraordinary poets, and leave inspired to continue shaping your own narrative.
Saturday 8 March @ 4pm on Zoom. This event is free.
Produced by Apples and Snakes in partnership with Young Identity.
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maHOGANY L. BROWNE
Mahogany L. Browne, a Kennedy Center’s Next 50 fellow and MacDowell Arts Advocacy Awardee, is a writer, playwright, organizer, & educator.
Browne received fellowships from All Arts, Arts for Justice, Air Serenbe, Baldwin for the Arts, Cave Canem, Hawthornden, Poets House, Mellon Research, Rauschenberg, Wesleyan University, & UCross. Browne’s books include Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky (optioned for a play by Steppenwolf Theater), Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby.
Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne currently tours Chrome Valley (highlighted in Publishers Weekly and The New York Times) and is the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize winner.
Mahogany L. Browne holds an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by Marymount Manhattan College, and is the inaugural poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center.
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NIKITA GILL
Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, writer, actor and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published seven collections of poetry including Wild Embers, Fierce Fairytales, Great Goddesses, Where Hope Comes From and These Are The WordsShe is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! and her book, a novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published by Ebury on National Poetry Day 2020. She has also published a novel in verse for Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary called The Angel of Redemption and her children’s audiobook Animal Tales From India won Highly Commended in the Week Junior Kids Awards. Her next book, Hekate, the first novel in a loosely connected trilogy about the Greek goddesses of the Underworld, will be published in autumn 2025 by Simon & Schuster in the UK and Little, Brown in US. Her work has been nominated for the Carnegie medal, shortlisted for the CLIPPA and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.
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Photo credit: Nikita Gill – Alex Cameron