Tatiana Figueroa Ramírez presents EXHUME
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Join us on Monday, November 2 in Remington to celebrate Tatiana Figueroa Ramírez's new poetry collection ! Tatiana will be joined by Lady Brion, the Maryland State Poet Laureate.
About Exhume
Exhume explores the legacies, stories, and spirits of the women who have passed and still live on. We women are multifaceted, beautiful, strong beings that patriarchal societies have tried to silence and still our impact cannot be quieted. The different sides of us cannot be flattened even after death. We may be Black and Brown and speak different languages and still our experiences breaking borders and generations are understood amongst us. In Exhume, I honor the women who have come before me to show me tenderness, wisdom, grace, vigor, rebellion, justice, love, and passion. I honor the women who showed me all parts of womanhood. I honor the women whose efforts I do not want to have been in vain. I honor the women who proved I could be more. I honor the women who pushed me to live as my authentic self. Exhume is an ode to sisterhood, a poetic documentation of history, a gift to the future Black and Brown girls who need to remember the magic in being a woman.
Exhume will be available for purchase at the event!
Born in Puerto Rico, Tatiana Figueroa Ramírez is an award-winning poet, educator, and nonprofit leader who has received fellowships from VONA Voices, Anaphora Arts, and Letras Boricuas, having worked with Willie Perdomo and Danez Smith. Tatiana currently performs, facilitates workshops, and hosts events in the DC area, having previously done so across the United States and the Dominican Republic at venues including The National Museum of Women in the Arts and New York University. Her work has been featured in MSNBC’s “Leguizamo Does America, ” The Giant Food Campaign “This is Home, ” and The Acentos Review, among other publications. Tatiana is the current Poet Laureate of Prince George ’s County, MD and author of Coconut Curls y Café con Leche (2019) and Despojo (2020).
Lady Brion is an international spoken word artist, activist, organizer and educator. Lady Brion currently serves as the executive director of the Black Arts District. In 2024 she was appointed by Governor Wes Moore as the Poet Laureate of Maryland, making her the youngest Poet Laureate in Maryland’s history and the only spoken word artist to ever hold this position. She received her B.A. in Communication and Culture from Howard University and her MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Design from the University of Baltimore. During her slam career she has won the 2016 and 2021 National Poetry Slam, the 2017 and 2019 Southern Fried Regional Slam, and the 2019 Rustbelt Regional Slam. In 2021 she became the Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion making her the number 1 ranked woman slam poet in the world.
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