Volume Five: Chapter Twenty - Our Conversation with Ajanaé Dawkins
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In Volume Five: Chapter Twenty, we welcomed Ajanae Dawkins.
Ajanaé is a poet, conceptual artist and theologian. She works through poetry, visual art, performance, and audio to explore the politics of faith, grief, and intimate relationships between Black women. As a theologian, she blends cultural criticism, memoir, and theology as autotheory to consider the relationship between Black church history, spirituality, and creation. Her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, the Indiana Review, Frontier Poetry, The BreakBeat Poets Black Girl Magic Anthology and more. Her solo-exhibition, No One Teaches Us How To Be Daughters, debuted at Urban Arts Space in 2024. Her chapbook, BLOOD-FLEX, won the New Delta Review’s Chapbook prize and is forthcoming in Spring 2025.
Contact Ajanae:
Instagram: @moonsatdusk
Website: ajanaedawkins.com
Recorded Spoken Word Performances Featured Include:
FreeQuency – The Seven Deadly American Sins
Instagram: @freequencyspeaks Website: freequencyspeaks.com
Ya Ya Poet– Ling Ling
Instagram: @yayazhangpoet
Black Chakra – Pass
Instagram: @blackchakra88
Ajanaé Dawkins – When Viola Davis Won
Ajanaé Dawkins – For The Blonde Girl and the Classroom of Ghosts
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