Category: LAF 2021

On Tuesday, April 13 at 5pm, join us on Zoom for City Tech student stories and our 2021 LAF featured writer,   STACEYANN CHIN.

Staceyann Chin is a poet and spoken-word artist who recently published her first full-length collection of what publisher Haymarket Books describes as her “feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry”, Crossfire: A Litany for Survival (Haymarket Books, 2019).  She is also the author of The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir. 

https://indian2006.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/spoken-poetry-stacey-ann-chins-if-only-out-of-vanity/

[Spoken Poetry] Stacey-Ann Chin’s If Only Out of Vanity | Cellar Door indian2006.wordpress.com If only out of vanity I have wondered what kind of woman I will be when I am well past the summer of my raging youth Will I still be raising revolutionary flags and making impassioned speeches that…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CKO_OETlMY

Brooklyn Academy of Music reading from new book, Crossfire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHrYfdK2pW4

Staceyann Chin reads “Tsunami Rising” – YouTube www.youtube.com At Unbound— a literary series co-presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore—renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken word artist Staceyann Chin celebrated the release o…

A series of articles on her experience of LGBT Pregnancy & Motherhood:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/motherrockingmiracles_b_1651157

Below is a list of poems by Staceyann Chin available online on the website of the Poetry Foundation:

• For You: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/155082/for-you-5fda4f6da99f2
• In Those Years: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/155081/in-those-years This poem contains part of the text that makes up Chin’s dynamic stage performance, “If Only Out of Vanity” on Def Poetry: https://youtu.be/Cocm7Rz9cSk
• Passing: (a poem that mentions mentions Jay Street and Borough Hall): https://youtu.be/Cocm7Rz9cSk
• One Question: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/155080/one-question
• September in New York: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/155077/september-in-new-york