JUST BE(LOVED) Poetry Slam & Open Mic

Just Be(Loved) Poetry Slam & Open Mic is happens every 1st & 3rd Friday and features the a reader, an open mic and a poetry slam. This event is curated by Emmanuel Oppong Yeboah & Crystal Valentine. This week's feature is Justice Ameer.

Justice Ameer is a poet, facilitator, and political educator in Providence, RI. Xe is a co-founding member of blackearth collective + lab. Xe is a two-time Providence Grand Slam champion and a member of the inaugural co-champion team of the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam. Xe is a Pink Door Fellow and Faculty member, and xe was an Artist-in-Residence at Williams College in Spring 2020. Ameer co-created the theatrical production ANTHEM with Chrysanthemum at American Repertory Theater’s OBERON. Xyr work can be found in Split This Rock, the Academy of American Poets, POETRY magazine, The Shade Journal, The Nation, and anthologies The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl…