Black Like That
Poems from a Conduit
Published on 1. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-1-7379364-0-4 (ISBN)
Description
Black Like That is a collection of poems about my experience as a Black woman in America. It reviews what I have learned from living in this skin, on this land, and all the ancestry that has followed me to keep me covered. It is an invitation to my folk to find themselves in these stories and for those who cannot ascribe to these identities, I invite you to consider another perspective. Black Like That in all of its iterations is an offering from all the voices in mine that had no space to speak.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
195 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7379364-0-4 (9781737936404)
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Ray Jane is a Black female poet born in Brooklyn and raised in Far Rockaway Queens. She uses her poetry to lift herself and other women of color. Always aiming to strengthen her voice, Ray Jane won the Verb Benders slam poetry team's inaugural poetry slam and was published in Lalibreta.online an online poetry journal for Women in Creative Rebellion (2021, 2022). She has participated in poetic writing workshops focused on empowering women like "RoblesWrites Presents: Respite, Write, and Release? amongst many others and served as contributing editor for the anthology Love Letters to Gaia (2021). She has also moderated her own workshops with ¡Oyé Group! Poet's Corner (2021 and 2022) and Art Defined Inc. She also runs her own open mics as the host of The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Thursday Night Online Open mic (2022-Present) and for The Word Is Write. You can hear more of how she uses her voice in over 50 recorded poems on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/jay-ray-11), walking around NYC on the app Hear, Before https://www.hearbefore.nyc/; and on several podcasts including We Be Imagining/Black Siren Radio, and Sound Minds Podcast's "Potent Women Wordsmiths". For more, including full artist CV visit ItsRayJane.com.