Center Broadsides Reading Series

Latasha Diggs and Emily Skillings
Organized by Marcella Durand and Krystal Languell
on behalf of the Belladonna* Collaborative.

Come join us for the first Broadsides Reading of the spring! Free broadsides for all and reception to follow

$10 suggested donation/ $5 members

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of three chapbooks that include Ichi-Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna Press), and the album, Televisíon. Her work has been published in Rattapallax, Black Renaissance Noir, Nocturnes, Ploughshares, Black Belt (Studio Museum of Harlem), P.M.S, Jubilat, Everything But the Burden, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, Muck Works, and Fence to name a few. She has received several awards, residencies, and fellowships for her interdisciplinary work of them include Cave Canem, VCCA, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Eben Demarest Trust, Harlem Community Arts Fund, Barbara Deming Memorial Grant for Women, the Jerome Foundation, the Laundromat Project Create Change Public Artist Program and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. As an independent curator and director, LaTasha co-presented and directed literary/musical events at BAM Cafe, Symphony Space, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, El Museo del Barrio, and Dixon Place. A native of Harlem, LaTasha’s first poetry collection, TwERK, is forthcoming from Belladonna* Books.

Emily Skillings is a poet dancer/dancer poet. She earned her BA from The New School in 2010. Recent poetry can be read in Bone Bouquet, Lingerpost, Stonecutter, La Fovea and Maggy. Emily dances with Saifan Shmerer, the A.O. Movement Collective and The Commons Choir (Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik). She lives in Brooklyn, where she is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective and event series. She is a co-curator of the Brooklyn reading series HOT TEXTS with Krystal Languell. In March 2012 she co-organized the festival HOW TO CONTINUE: John Ashbery Across the Arts at The New School with Adam Fitzgerald and Robert Polito.