MahoganyBooks is delighted to simply gather, exchange ideas, create sacred moments and just chat, thus our Summer Salon Series was born. We are thrilled to have our friend, artist, author and dope sis, Nina Beam as the host. Please join us every fourth Tuesday until August. It's the perfect evening to come solo, bring a friend (or boo), and be in community celebrating all things Black. See you at the Salon!
6:30 pm Doors Open | 7:00 pm Conversation Begins.
Masks optional throughout event.
About the host: Nina Beam, as a sought-after speaker, has found her story and personal triumphs as a beacon of light to inspire and motivate others. For years, she has been known as “a writer who speaks and a speaker who sings”, bringing over 20 years’ experience as a performance artist to the world of charitable fundraising. As an Auctioneer and Fundraising Consultant, she assists organizations in raising money to do the work that allows them to meet the needs of the communities they serve. Nina currently resides in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. Learn more at www.webethelight.com
About the Featured Artist: Alexa Patrick (she/her) is a vocalist and poet from Connecticut. She is the author of Remedies for Disappearing (Haymarket Books 2023) and holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and more. In spring 2023, Alexa made her stage production debut as Un/Sung in the opera We Shall Not Be Moved, (dire. Bill T. Jones). You may find her work in publications including Adroit, CRWN Magazine, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. Visit alexapatrick.com for more.
About Featured Book: Remedies For Disappearing is a collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker’s experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and women.
In this beautiful debut from an exciting new poet, Alexa Patrick’s Remedies for Disappearing memorializes Blackness in its quiet and unexpected forms, bringing the peripheral into focus. These poems muddy Black life and death, observe lineage and love stories, and question what “disappearing” teaches about Blackness and bodies.
Remedies for Disappearing is gritty, sharp, and formally inventive, demonstrating Patrick’s imaginative curiosity, lyrical restraint, and confidence in her handling of language. Moments of aphoristic confession are balanced with imagistic precision as the speaker recounts the ways her aunties, sisters, and even herself have disappeared in order to survive.
Patrick’s poetry is haunting and hopeful, striving to provide readers with the tools and context to acknowledge, define, and honor the complexity of Black girl/womanhood. Remedies for Disappearing connects Black girls and women to each other and to their own histories, and insists that they be fully and wholly seen.
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-- Let's have an amazing evening, The MahoganyBooks Team