Nerdacity Podcast with DuEwa Frazier

DuEwa Frazier

Interviews, education and culture commentary with DuEwa Frazier, award winning poet, educator, TEDx & keynote speaker, children's / YA author and digital creator. X @nerdacitypod1 IG @nerdacitypodcast. Visit www.duewafrazier.com and Subscribe Youtube.com/DUEWAWORLD!

  1. Ep. 55 Nina Angela Mercer Talks The Double

    3月21日

    Ep. 55 Nina Angela Mercer Talks The Double

    Ep 55 DuEwa talked with Dr. Nina Angela Mercer about her work and new book THE DOUBLE. Visit her website at www.NinaAngelaMercer.com. Follow Nerdacity IG @nerdacityarts , X @nerdacitypod1 Subscribe and listen to past interviews @Spotify @ApplePodcasts and Youtube.com/DUEWAWORLD. Bio Nina Angela is a cultural worker and multidisciplinary artist living in Washington, D.C. Nina’s writing is published in The Killens Review of Arts & Letters; Black Renaissance Noire; Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre, and Performance; A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine Online; Break Beat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Press); Are You Entertained? Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century (Duke University Press); Performance Research Journal (Taylor and Francis); Represent! New Plays for Multicultural Young People (Bloomsbury Press); So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (Haymarket Press); Black Ecologies Zine (Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice); and tBTR: A Journal of the Black Theatre Network. She is excited about her first collection of writing for performance, The Double: A Choreodrama and a Choreopoem (Kavaya Press). Nina’s choreodramas, choreopoems, and plays include GUTTA BEAUTIFUL(The Warehouse Theatre, The Woolly Mammoth for DC’s Fringe, Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement, & Little Carib Theatre in Trinidad); ITAGUA MEJI: A Road & A Prayer (Brecht Forum, Alternate Roots, Rutgers University Newark and New Brunswick, The Nuyorican Poets Café); GYPSY & THE BULLY DOOR (The Warehouse Theatre, the former Dumbo Sky); ELIJAHEEN BECOMES WIND (Anacostia Arts Center); CHARISMA AT THE CROSSROADS (Dorothy Young Arts Center); SPARROW(The Langston Hughes House); and A COMPULSION FOR BREATHING (The Schomburg Center and Target Margin Theater). Nina has taught across disciplines at American University, Howard University, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn College, Drew University, and for the Beyond Identity Program at City College. She is also co-founder and executive director of Ocean Ana Rising, Inc. (OAR) which has been generously funded with grants from the NEA, The Black Seed, and DC’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Nina holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). She also holds a Master of Philosophy from The Graduate Center at CUNY, a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing - Fiction from American University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Howard University. Nina is a mother to two adult daughters who keep her mindful with an ear for new music and language.

    49 分钟
  2. Ep. 54 E.J. Antonio Talks Poetry & Rituals in the Marrow

    2024/05/21

    Ep. 54 E.J. Antonio Talks Poetry & Rituals in the Marrow

    Ep. 54 DuEwa interviewed poet, E.J. Antonio. Visit E.J.'s website at E.J. Antonio (ejantoniobluez.net). Follow Nerdacity on Instagram @nerdacitypodcast Follow on X (formerly Twitter) @nerdacitypod1 Bio E.J. Antonio received fellowships in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and the Cave Canem Foundation. She’s appeared as a featured reader and performer at venues in the NY tri-state area, including Arts Westchester; the Stone; the Hobart Festival of Women Writers, The Vision Festival, Langston Hughes House, the Blue Door Art Gallery, the Untermyer Park Arts Center, and the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at the Pocantico Center. Her work has been published in various journals, magazines, and anthologies, including: the Encyclopedia Project, African Voices Literary Magazine, Black Renaissance Noire, The Mom Egg, Killens Review of Arts & Letters, Taint Taint Taint Magazine, About Place Journal, and arriving at a shoreline an anthology . E.J. is the author of two chapbooks, Every Child Knows (Premier Poets Chapbook Series 2007) and Solstice (Red Glass Books, 2013), and a solo jazz poetry cd Rituals in the marrow: Recipe for a jam session. E.J. is a founding Board Member of the non-profit Arts organization One Breath Rising, and a founding member of the improvisation group, The Jazz & Poetry Choir Collective, which released its debut cd We Were Here in April 2020.

    1 小时 11 分钟
  3. Ep. 53 M. Nzadi Keita Talks Migration Letters

    2024/04/30

    Ep. 53 M. Nzadi Keita Talks Migration Letters

    Ep. 53 DuEwa interviewed M. Nzadi Keita about her new poetry collection, Migration Letters (2024, Beacon Press). Visit M. Nzadi Keita: Poems and Prose (zeekeita.com). Listen to this ep and past Nerdacity eps at Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio, Podcast Addict and more! Follow IG @nerdacitypodcast X twitter.com/nerdacitypod1 Subscribe YouTube.com/duewaworld BIO M. Nzadi Keita is a first-generation urban northerner. Her first book of poems, Birthmarks, was published by Nightshade Press. Her work has since appeared on public television, and in anthologies including Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry in the 21st Century, and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Her poems appear in MELUS, Poet Lore, and Crab Orchard, among other journals. Grants and fellowships from Yaddo, Fine Arts Work Center, Leeway Foundation, and the Pew Center for Arts and Humanities have supported her writing and community-based arts adventures.   Keita served as an adviser to the documentary, “BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez.” Her essays on Sanchez appear in Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in The 1960s and the anthology, Peace Is A Haiku Song (Mural Arts Press).    She has collaborated with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, WHYY-TV/ Philadelphia, the Rosenbach Museum, Moonstone Arts Center, Germantown Arts Roundtable, and other initiatives. Keita is a Cave Canem alum and a professor of creative writing and literature at Ursinus College.

    1 小时 8 分钟

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Interviews, education and culture commentary with DuEwa Frazier, award winning poet, educator, TEDx & keynote speaker, children's / YA author and digital creator. X @nerdacitypod1 IG @nerdacitypodcast. Visit www.duewafrazier.com and Subscribe Youtube.com/DUEWAWORLD!