Wild Indigo with Niki Herd and M. Nzadi Keita

Following two spectacular poetry and social justice events this fall, Wild Indigo is thrilled to present Germantown's own M. Nzadi Keita and Copper Canyon poet Niki Herd! Full bios and info on their NEW BOOKS are below.The reading will be back indoors in November and the open mic is back! Bring your poem to share - sign up is first come, first served.

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M. Nzadi Keita is a poet, essayist, scholar, and educator. Her third book, Migration Letters: Poems, reflects on her upbringing and coming of age as a Black working-class woman in Philadelphia, originally Lenapehoking land. Keita used persona to unveil Frederick Douglass’s first wife in her second book, Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the life of Anna Murray Douglass, which David Blight cited in his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Journals including Obsidian, Poet Lore, About Place, and Raising Mothers have published Keita’s writing. She has worked as an adviser to the award-winning documentary, BadddDDD Sonia Sanchez, and a consultant for the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia. For many years Keita taught creative writing, American literature, and Africana studies at Ursinus College. She is a Cave Canem alumna, a Pew Fellow, and a Leeway Foundation grantee.

Niki Herd is the author of the poetry collections The Stuff of Hollywood and The Language
of Shedding Skin, as well as the chapbook _____ , don’t you weep. She coedited with Meg Day Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry, essays, and criticism appear in the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Poetry Daily, New England Review, Salon, and This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Ucross, Bread Loaf, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Newberry Library, and Cave Canem. Herd has taught at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Lancaster where she teaches at Franklin & Marshall College.

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