New Third World Reading Series #1: I.S. Jones

I.S. Jones reads at the first convening of the New Third World✨ Alongside Ghinwa Jawhari, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Patrycja Humienik, Gabrielle Bates, and series curator Malvika Jolly. Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Barbès Brooklyn. 🤍 Videography courtesy Ashli Owens.
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I.S. Jones is a queer American Nigerian poet and music journalist. A Graduate Fellow with The Watering Hole. she holds fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT Writer’s Retreat, and Brooklyn Poets. I.S. hosts a month-long workshop every April called The Singing Bullet. She is an editor at 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Washington Square Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hobart Pulp, The Rumpus, The Offing, Shade Literary Arts, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Spells Of My Name came out with Newfound on November 30, 2021.
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The New Third World is a monthly poetry reading series inspired by the Non-Aligned Movement’s dream for the third world. Each convening brings together six poets and performers whose works emerge from the collision of global and personal histories from the perspective of the ‘third world,’ and its diasporas, addressing such themes as: autobiography, exile, homecoming, hybridity, distance, diaspora, memory, futurity, transnationalism, translation, life-writing, pan-nationalism, and liberational politics.
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