Carmin A. M. Wong
A Guyanese-born playwright, poet•organizer, and dual-title ph.d candidate at pennsylvania state university, she is co-author of the Choreopoems A Chorus Within Her (Theater Alliance) and What Does Purple Sound Like? (pennsylvania state university), and playwright of Finding Home: Adeline Lawson Graham, Colored Citizen of Bellefonte, which centers untold narratives of 19th-century free Black Pennsylvanians.
Imagining Alternate Futures
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Inaugural Poet Laureate, State College, Pennsylvania
Advocating for literary arts and education as tools for liberation and community rehabilitation across the Borough of State College.
#Harper200 Poetry Program Coordinator, Center for Black Digital Research #DigBlk
Honoring the 200th anniversary of poet and activist Frances E. W. Harper
Castle of Our Skins' Shirley Graham Du Bois Creative-in-Residence
Girls Write Now Teaching Artist
Future Collaborator?
Poetry exists at the heart of every global liberation struggle—from Abolition in the united states and Négritude in the francophone Caribbean, to Black Power in the united kingdom, anti-colonial efforts in Kenya, and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter throughout the African diaspora. As a lifelong student of literary history, I want to spread awareness about the power of the arts in shaping a deeper social consciousness and encourage writers at any stage of their career.
Consider reaching out if you are looking for a lecturer of lit•orature/poetry, theatre, or Black Studies; poetry writing workshop facilitator; performer; keynote speaker; arts curator; host; or poetry editor. For other bookings and collaborations, contact me.
Dedicated to Baba Stanley Kinard, Val Gray Ward, Mr. Osborne, Mrs. Stephens, for their ancestral wisdom carrying We forward. I wish for one more phone call with you.