Launch for rivers and other blackness between us by d’bi.young.anitafrika

d'bi.young.anitafrika launches her new book, rivers… and other blackness… between us: (dub) poems of love (Women's Press) at Lula Lounge on Monday, February 18 at 7:30.

d’bi.young.anitafrika believes in life, love, and revolushun. An award-winning dub poet, actor, and playwright, d’bi has written, published, and performed internationally. She is also the author of the dub-poetry collection art on black (Women’s Press, 2006) and the Dora Award–winning play blood.claat.

d’bi is a passionate word-warrior with originality and ingenuity to match her creative courage. In rivers... and other blackness... between us, she gushes freely, blending contemporary currents with ancestral resonance to create a daring collection that demands attention. As it bends boundaries and defies definitions, d’bi’s poetry courses along its own path. Surging and swirling, sometimes overflowing the banks, her lines are both delightful and disturbing. On the outside you see a book covered and bound, but on each page there’s raw power and boundless revelation.”
—Blakka Ellis, Jamaican writer, performer, and educator.

Poet Sheri-D Wilson offered the following after reading d’bi’s new collection:
“d’bi is an electric wire and a grounded soul
Her words move and dance and sing and chant
They fly and then they return to reflect—
With her words and her silence
d’bi ignites the woman story
Alive, with beads and shells
And bells and bones—
d’bi inspires earth-song”