Poetry event organized by Peter Kahn brought together young writers, Dennison University students, mentor by Barbara Fant(poet), Hanif Abubakarik (poet and novelist) and Malika Brooker(poet fron the UK) for a night of spoken words and poetry.

We are continuing our conversation with Munashe Kaseke, author of the collection of stories " Send Her Back " which was published July 25 2022 by Mukana Press. She was born and raised in Harare Zimbabwe and immigrated to the United States at age 19 .

Munashe Kaseke was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. She migrated to the United States of America at the age nineteen when she received a scholarship to study at Drake University in Des Moines , Iowa. She holds a Doctor of Pharmacy and Master in Public Administration degrees. Munashe currently lives and works in Northern California.

James Baldwin was an American writer and activist born in Harlem August 2, 1924. As a writer, he ganered acclaim accrossvarious mediums, including essays, novels, plays and poems.

Isabel Wilkerson is an american journalist and author of the book Castes The Origins of our discontent. She was born in Washington DC, graduated from Howard University where she earned a degree in Journalism. She won the Putlizer Prize for her first book The Warmth of Others Sun.

Imbolo Mbue is a Cameroonian-American novelist and short-story writer based in New York City. She is known for her debut novel Behold the Dreamers, which has garnered her the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Award.

Aime Cesaire is a Martinican and French poet, author, and politician. He was one of the founders of the Negritude movement in francophone literature . He was born June 26, 1913 in BASSE POINTE , MARTINIQUE and died in 2008.

Zadie Smith is a an English novelist, essayist and short-story writer. Her debut novel White Teeth immediately became a best seller and won her number of awards. She is a tenured professor in the creative writing faculty of New York University since 2010.

Yaa Gyasi ( born in 1989 ) is a ghanaian-american novelist. Her debut novel Homegoing published in 2016 won her at the age of 26, the National Book Critic Circle award and the Pen/Hemingway award .

Nazi Boni was born December 31, 1909 in Upper Volta now Burkina Faso. He was a politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on behalf of the Voltaic Union. He also was the first writer from Burkina Faso to ever been published. His novel , Crepuscule des temps anciens, was published in 1962 by Presences Africaines.