SOLD OUT - Bad Poems: Poetry of Resistance, Defiance & Dissent
April 11, 2024
7 - 9:30 pm
Bad Poems: Poetry of Resistance, Defiance & Dissent
Presented in partnership with Black Miami-Dade & Maven Leadership Collective
*This event is for adults 18+
Register here \ This event is now SOLD OUT
Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black resistance and resilience in Deep South Jim Crow Miami. “The Ballad of Sam Solomon” is an ode to Sam Solomon, a Miami resident and civil rights activist who defied the KKK by encouraging Black voters in segregated Overtown to cast their ballots in the 1930s.
Join us at Red Rooster in Overtown, the same neighborhood whose Black resistance inspired Hughes to write this poem spotlighting fearlessness, defiance, Black personhood, and Miami’s white supremacy.
At this subversive poetry cypher created by Nadege Green & Corey Davis and hosted by Arsimmer McCoy, we invite Miamians to write and share their disruptive poems that resist, that challenge the status quo, that document past or current fights and wins, that tear down all the –isms. This is an invitation to speak up, to cuss, to not be polite or nice about it, to say how you really feel.
Nadege Green is an award-winning journalist and founder of Black Miami-Dade, a history and storytelling platform that resists the erasure of Miami’s Black past.
Corey Davis is the executive director of Maven Leadership Collective, an ideas lab that creates the conditions for talented queer and trans social impact leaders of color and allies to build ecosystems of support for more just communities with greater ease, agency, and belonging.
Arsimmer McCoy is an international poet, teaching artist, cultural worker, and collaborative artist from Miami, Florida. McCoy is the founder of the Carol City Museum, the creator of the Honorable Mentions Dinner, and the visionary behind Homecoming, a project bridging Black and Indigenous communities in Everglades National Park.
