Your hosts.
Mahogany Brown
Mahogany L. Browne is a writer, an organizer, and an educator. She is the author of several poetry collections for adults, including Kissing Caskets and #Dear Twitter. Her books for children and teenagers include Chlorine Sky, Black Girl Magic, and Woke Baby, the companion book to Woke. She is the artistic director of Urban Word NYC and has received literary fellowships from Agnes Gund, AIR Serenbe, Cave Canem, Poets House, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. mobrowne.com
Jon Goode
Jon Goode is an Emmy-nominated writer raised in Richmond, VA and currently residing in Atlanta, GA. Jon’s work has been featured in CNN’s Black in America, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, BET’s Lyric Café and TVOne’s Verses and Flow. Hehas also written radio commercials for McDonalds, print ads for Nike, and appeared in commercials, vignettes and interstitials for VH-1 and TVLand/ Nick@Nite. Jon’s work earned him the 2006 Promax Gold for the best copyright in North America. His collection of poems and short stories, Conduit, was #1 on Amazon for 16 weeks. Jon's debut novel, Mydas, was released on Sept 14th 2020. It debuted as a #1 new title on Amazon.com. Jon is a Fellow of AIR Serenbe and the current host of The Moth, Atlanta.
Jon Goode performs ‘Dark’.
One of Jon’s pieces that we will be discussing during the Poetry Night Happy Hour is, ‘Dark’. Please watch the recording prior to our meet-up.
Read ‘Say the Names’ by Mahogany Brown
One of Mahogany’s pieces that we will be discussing during the Poetry Night Happy Hour is, ‘Say the Names’ on page 25 of Mahogany’s Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice. Please read the piece in prior to our meet-up.