In this interview author and poet Thomas Sayers Ellis sat down with Pittsburgh-based poet Bonita Lee Penn to talk about his personal relationship with the oral tradition, the founding of the Dark Room Collective, and the future of language and motion.
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Pittsburgh-based poet Bonita Lee Penn discusses of her poetry, describes her inspirations, explains her vision of Pittsburgh’s writing community, and provides some advice for young writers.
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Sampsonia Way is delighted to share three poems by Penn: “Absurdity or if I hear one more racist thing about the President of the United States,” “Rivers Run Red” and “Orangeburg SC – February 8, 1968.”
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Sampsonia Way is delighted to share two poems by Bonita Lee Penn: “Utterances of an Essential Narrative” and “America the Beautiful.” She is author of two books of poetry: The B Side (2011) and The Visiting Room (2007).
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