Black Feminist Poetics: From the Dirt to the Delta

Pegasus Theatre Chicago announces “Gonna Be Somebody” community outreach and post-performance events in support of Lifeline Theatre and Pegasus’ co- production of “From the Mississippi Delta,” by Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland and directed by ILesa Duncan.

This program, “Black Feminist Poetics: From the Dirt to the Delta,” co-produced by Guild Literary Complex and Surviving the Mic, Monday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Pegasus at Chicago Dramatists, 765 N. Aberdeen (May and Aberdeen). explores the poetics inspired by From the Mississippi Delta. Saunte Harden-Tate, Nikki Patin, Mojdeh Stoakley and members of the Guild Complex will perform works written by Nina Simone, Beah Richards, Gwendolyn Brooks and other Black feminist poets and then perform their own pieces written as response, resulting in a poetic conversation about and for Black women.

Reservations for “Black Feminist Poetics: From the Dirt to the Delta” can be made at PegasusTheatreChicago.orgor Gonna Be Somebody.

The play runs April 27 – June 18 at Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Avenue. For tickets to “From the Mississippi Delta,” go toLifelineTheatre.com.

Top row (L to R) Anika Sterling Florez,Brenda Myers-Powell, Anne Ream and Scheherazade Tillet

Second row  (L to R) Saunté Harden-Tate, Mojdeh Stoakley and Nikki Patin