BUSY SEASON AHEAD!
It's starting to feel like Fall and my bookings are steadily coming in. It was almost a year ago that I completed my first book of poetry, Free to Be Me: Poems on Love, Life, and Relationships and began the long journey of marketing and PR and getting readings. I do have the advantage of working in the PR field but because I do it all myself, it can be overwhelming at times. However as I begin to see the results of my hard work, it makes it all worthwhile. This all to say that for any goals you may have, if you stick with it and do the hard work, results will come.
From my poem "Hermoso Negro (Handsome Black Man) winning an Alan Ginsberg Award and getting published in the Paterson Literary Review (I should get my copy soon); to my recent reading at the DC Poetry Project Inc. event; to getting my first book review, it's been a long year, but a worthwhile one!
Love Always,
Cherrie Amour
BALTIMORE BOOK FESTIVAL (SEPT. 26 TO 28)
This amazing annual event has moved to Baltimore Inner Harbor this year and will continue its long tradition of a great lineup of authors, including Tavis Smiley, Reyna Grande, Michael Muller and Bill T. Jones; over 100 exhibitors; and continuous readings. I will be there on Saturday, Sept. 27, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. selling and signing my book, Free to Be Me, Poems on Love Life and Relationships at the Black Writers Guild booth at McKelvin Square (Cr. of Light/Pratt Sts.) Hope to see you there! Click here for more info.
REMEMBERING POET LUCILLE CLIFTON (ONE OF MY FAV POETS)
1936-2010
A prolific and widely respected poet who served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979-1985, Lucille Clifton's work emphasizes endurance and strength through adversity, focusing particularly on the African-American experience and family life. Awarding the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize to Clifton in 2007, the judges remarked that “One always feels the looming humaneness around Lucille Clifton’s poems—it is a moral quality that some poets have and some don’t.”
UPCOMING EVENTS/READINGS
Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014, 1:30 p.m.
Plymouth United Church of Christ - Unity Room
600 E. Warren Avenue, Detroit MI 48202
Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. (Cherrie Amour reads at 7:15. p.m.)
First "Open Mic and Feature Series" features poet Cherrie Amour
Enoch Pratt Central Library,
400 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD 21201
Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014, 1:30 p.m.
Plymouth United Church of Christ - Unity Room
600 E. Warren Avenue, Detroit MI 48202
Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. (Cherrie Amour reads at 7:15. p.m.)
First "Open Mic and Feature Series" features poet Cherrie Amour
Enoch Pratt Central Library,
400 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD 21201
CHERRIE AMOUR IS AVAILABLE FOR READINGS/PERFORMANCES
Make a request at Event Bookings
PURCHASE MY BOOK AT www.cherrieamour.com
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AND REMEMBER LOVE IS THE WAY!
