Brim to read at STAND OUR GROUND Benefit Reading on June 25 in New Haven

Come listen to poets read their work from Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander. I have two poems included in this ground-breaking anthology and am excited to participate in the benefit reading at the New Haven Public Library at 133 Elm Street in New Haven, CT on Tuesday, June 25th at 6:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public.

The event will be held in the program room which is in the basement. You can enter directly from the ramp on the side of the building which is Temple Street. The building sits on the corner of Temple and Elm facing the park which is called "The Green." This is also the handicap accessible entrance.

In "Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander" 65 poets from all over the world join together in one voice for justice, freedom and peace. Stand Our Ground is the definitive testament of a revolutionary generation. In this historic collection Black Arts Movement legends Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Haki R. Madhubuti and Askia M. Toure’ are joined by poets of all ages from across the United States and around the world representing countries in Africa, Asia, Europe as well as North and South America and the islands of the Caribbean.

The cases of Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander expose the duplicity of an American justice system that remains rooted in racism and sexism. Stand Our Ground is an effort to raise funds for both families to aid in their pursuit of justice even as it raises the consciousness of a generation toward the pursuit of a movement of justice for all!

The book’s editor, Ewuare X. Osayande, is a poet, educator and activist. The author of several books including Blood Luxury with an introduction by Amiri Baraka (Africa World Press) and Whose America?: New and Selected Poems with an introduction by Haki R. Madhubuti (Black Proletariat Press). He is an adjunct professor of African American Studies at Rutgers University. To order the book and for more information, visit: http://standourgroundbook.com/the-book/

Read New Poems from "Icarus in Love" on Brim's Main Street Rag Author's Page

Read new poems from Antoinette Brim's forthcoming book Icarus in Love.  Visit her Main Street Rag Publishing Company's Author's Page by clicking here.

Antoinette Brim Leads Writing Workshop: Poetic Form & Freedom: A Workshop

Drawing from Marilyn Nelson’s A Wreath for Emmitt Till and other poems, we will explore traditional poetic form as a means to express challenging subject matter, to celebrate literary tradition and to contribute to the progress of formalism. Poets of all levels are welcome. Registration is required as space is limited. Please call 860-695-6295 or go to the events calendar at www.hplct.org. 

Workshop leader Antoinette Brim, author of Icarus in Love and Psalm of the Sunflower, is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. A sought after speaker, she teaches at Capital Community College.

Antoinette Brim & Kenneth DiMaggio to read for the Wintonbury Poetry Series

Antoinette Brim will read from her forthcoming poetry collection, Icarus in Love, for the Wintonbury Poetry Series on Thursday, October 18, 2012.  Poet Kenneth DiMaggio will also be featured.  An Open Mike with follow.  Click here for more information and directions to the Mahon Wintonbury Library in Bloomfield, CT.

To order Icarus in Love at the discounted price of $8.50 reserved for advance orders, go to Main Street Rag Publishing Company’s “Coming Soon” page. Scroll down the page to find the Icarus in Love link. Click here to go to the “Coming Soon” page.

Jacqueline Jones LaMon praises Brim's "Icarus is Love"

Antoinette Brim’s, Icarus in Love, is a stellar collection full of the mythology of living. Utilizing vibrant, recurring images that braid their way through our hearts and memories, Brim raises hard questions of survival and offers hope to us all. With poems in conversation with the work of Neruda, Plath, Bishop and others, Brim skillfully employs the use of poetic form to confront the teetering circumstances of life. An important collection from a poet on the rise!

Jacqueline Jones LaMon 

Author of LAST SEEN and GRAVITY, U.S.A. 

To order Icarus in Love at the discounted price of $8.50 reserved for advance orders, go to Main Street Rag Publishing Company’s “Coming Soon” page. Scroll down the page to find the Icarus in Love link. Click here to go to the Main Street Rag Publishing Company “Coming Soon” page.

Brim reads poem from "Icarus in Love"

Antoinette Brim reads What is reflected in the koi pond in early evening from her collection Icarus in Love forthcoming from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in January 2013.

To order Icarus in Love at the discounted price of $8.50 reserved for advance orders, go to Main Street Rag Publishing Company's "Coming Soon" page.  Scroll down the page to find the Icarus in Love link. Click here to go to Main Street Rag Publishing Company's Coming Soon page.

Kwame Dawes praises "Icarus in Love" ...

“…this female brain is always keeping time…” In this love song, Icarus in Love, each word is packed with weight and consideration—such that when the poet speaks of keeping time, the keeping is the collecting, the cherishing, the reflecting, the shaping, and the adoration of time, of memory, of the future, of tradition, of art. Antoinette Brim enters emotions with optimism and hope of enlightenment, and often she achieves such in these poems. Yes, “…this female brain is always measuring…” the substance and nature of love.

To order Icarus in Love at the discounted price of $8.50 reserved for advance orders, go to Main Street Rag Publishing Company's "Coming Soon" page.  Scroll down the page to find the Icarus in Love link.