Celebrating Black History Month: Poetry Reading

Overview

Three Black poets, Sagirah Shahid, Dralandra Larkins, and Debra J Stone will be reading their work at Subtext Bookstore

Sagirah Sahid is an African American Muslim poet, editor, arts administrator, and performance artist from Minneapolis, MN. She is a recipient of awards, fellowship, and residencies from the Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Twin Cities Media Alliance, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art and Muslim Advocates, Strive Publishing, Wisdom Ways, Nicollet Lanterns, and 826 MSP. In 2021 Sagirah was co-curator of the City of Saint Paul’s Sidewalk Poetry project and was a writer-in-residence with the Write Like Us program.

Dralandra Larkins is an award-winning spoken word poet, teaching artist, storyteller, and co-editor of Cracked Walnut’s anthology “Rewilding Hope, 2023” and Hansel-Cabello's "The Nations Underground: Writing with Our Ancestors 2024" based in Minneapolis. Her work has been recognized in the Minnesota Women’s Press, The Edge Magazine, Insight News, Witness Writers, The Agates and other anthologies.

Debra J Stone is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Arts Fellow in Literature, essay, poet and novel author. More of her work has been published by Blue Earth Review, Indiana Review, Green Mountains Review, Under the Gum Tree, and other literary journals. In 2021 her poem, year-of- staying–in place, was nominated Best of Net and Pushcart nominated. She is a board member of the Hennepin History Museum. Debra is married and resides in Minneapolis.

We encourage you to purchase the poets books or donate to Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment organization.