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Givens Foundation | Black Market Reads

BLACK MARKET READS is a menu for Black literary consumption and all of its spin-offs. Featuring Black artists who love to read and write and engage in arts and culture. To listen to episodes and find GO DEEPER content about our authors and their work, visit our website (https://blackmarketreads.com/). Join the conversation! Follow us on Facebook (@GivensFoundationforAfricanAmericanLiterature), rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, and share us with all your friends.           PRODUCER: The Givens Foundation for African American Literature HOST: Lissa Jones PRODUCTION SERVICES: iDream.tv                                                     BLACK MARKET READS is made possible through the generous support of our individual donors, the Minnesota Humanities Center and the voters of Minnesota, through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. For more information about the Givens Foundation, visit their website. (https://thegivensfoundationmn.org/)

Dec 31, 2018

In this episode we honor the late Ntozake Shange -- poet, author, playwright, artist. Her seminal work, the choreo-poem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf inspired generations of black women to see themselves differently and to question structures of power that tried to limit their...


Dec 7, 2018

On this episode, Lissa talks with poet Julian Randall  about his impressive debut collection Refuse. Julian is a Living, Queer, Black poet from Chicago. He has received fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT and the Watering Hole and was the 2015 National College Slam (CUPSI) Best Poet, as well as being the recipient a...