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SURRENDER is a poetic response to the narratives we’ve inherited, created, and desire to forget. Through poetry, Diamond Forde, xavia-margrith miles, and de’Angelo DIA examine what it means to surrender to self. Poetry Reading + Artist Talk
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Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, is the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. She has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and CLA's Margaret Walker Memorial Prize, and placed in the Frontier Poetry's New Poets Award.
She is a Callaloo and Tin House fellow, whose work has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, NELLE, Tupelo Quarterly and more. Diamond serves as the assistant editor of Southeast Review, and the fiction editor for Nat. Brut.
Diamond has earned a Bachelors in English from the University of West Georgia. She earned an MFA from The University of Alabama. She is a PhD candidate at Florida State University.
www.diamondforde.com
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xavia-margrith miles is a poet, alchemist, and death companion. xavia-margrith wields absurdist sensibilities to cultivate intimacy with impermanence, desire, and divinity. Horror films, found objects, and organic matter animate her exploration of fugitivity and interdependence. In xavia’s role as a proposal writer, she identifies funding opportunities and composes authentic narratives to redistribute wealth toward community-led reimaginings of liberatory and sacred spaces.
xavia earned her AB in English and minor in Africana Studies and Film Studies from Bryn Mawr College. Her work has been exhibited at the 30th Annual Candyman Symposium and Revolve in Asheville, NC. She is a proud recipient of The Watering Hole Fellowship, the South Porch Artist Residency, and the Goodyear Arts Residency. Her poetry collections include Wormwood Letters: Correspondence from Sugarland, and We’ve Always Had Fire. She is seeded in Minnesota’s tundra, seasoned by Southern love, and Philly-fed.
xaviamargrith.com
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Theopoet and comic book scholar de’Angelo DIA examines cultural, social-political, and theological imagination through poetry, performance art, and photography. His work focuses on the intersectionality of Black liberation theology and theopoetics. Dia earned a BS in Communications and Sociology with a minor in Photography from Appalachian State University, a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies: Literature from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry from Union Presbyterian Seminary. His artistic influences include ethno-gothic literature, comic books, graphic novels, and neo-Appalachian art.
DIA’s poetry collections include dichotomy and bifurcation (Theurgical Studies Press, 2024). His forthcoming chapbook, Cocktails with Jesus, is a Black nerd’s poetic reimagining of the last seven words of Jesus of Nazareth. Dia’s poems have appeared BLACK BOY Journal, The Skinny Journal, Artists Writing on Liberation, and Cru Arts & Culture. DIA is the Community Relations Manager of Goodyear Arts based in Charlotte, NC.
dia1518.com
