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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 great additional content about our authors and their work, visit our website (https://blackmarketreads.com/).

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PRODUCER: The Givens Foundation for African American Literature
PRODUCTION SERVICES: iDream.tv

SEASON TWO - FOUR: Hosted by Lissa Jones

SEASON ONE: BMR was originated by Tana Hargest on behalf of The Givens Foundation, HOSTED BY Erin Sharkey and Junauda Petrus of Free Black Dirt, and other guest hosts as introduced, MUSIC: Sarah White - Through People [M¥K Remix]

Black Market Reads is made possible through the generous support of our individual donors, Target Foundation, 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. (http://www.givens.org)

Mar 1, 2021

Listen to audio of poets reading their work from Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Poems in the wake of racial injustice from a chapbook published by Rain Taxi, recorded on the site of George Floyd Square in Minneapolis by iDream.tv

Apnea and Bruxism  by Michael Kleber Diggs

a little glimpse  by keno evol

Familiar Fruit  by Sagirah Shahid

Homeland, Like the Girl who Sang Soweto by Sherrie Fernandez-Williams

When I think there aren’t enough buckets to hold this  by Maya Washington

Block Party Say It by Douglas Kearney

Thembe  by Philip S. Bryant

Justi cation/Witness  by Mary Moore Easter

L’Etoile du Nord by Bernard James

 (copies can be found on Rain Taxi's website).