Flash Briefing: Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Azura Tyabji reads "Palanquin" - a podcast by C. R. Grimmer

Today's flash briefing poetry reading is Youth Poet Laureate of the West Coast (and located here in Seattle), Azura Tyabji. She reads us her original piece, "Palanquin". Join us later this week for our longer chat on social media, trauma commodification, diaspora, and coalition building! For recent collaboration episodes with the Youth Poet Laureate Program, tune in to the last two weeks here on the podcast or visit the YouTube channel (bit.ly/thepoetryvlog).

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On Azura Tyabji: Azura Mizan Tyabji writes from the perspective of a young woman of Black and Indian descent living in Seattle, Washington. She currently serves as the Youth Poet Laureate of her city, and as the National Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador for the West region of the United States. What motivates every aspect of her artistic practice is a love for community, justice, and healing. Poetry inspires movements for radical change, and Azura strives to lend her voice to that legacy by commanding attention to injustice and invoking a future without it. Her debut poetry collection will be released by Poetry Northwest in May 2019.  

For more info, visit her site: https://www.azuratyabji.com/

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Say Hi Azura at:

https://www.instagram.com/azura.tyabji/

(@azuratyabji)

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On The National Youth Poet Laureate Program:

(youthlaureate.org) //(urbanwordnyc.org)

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Texts we will reference this week:

In Seattle, Luther Hughes for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/lom-luther-hughes-1 

Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn, Kyle Dargan for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/dargan-diaspora

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