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Science of soul study center chicago8/8/2023 In 2021 she was one of the inaugural poets selected for the Poets & Scholars Retreat at the Rutgers University Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. Her awards for poetry include the New Discovery Award from the Poetry Center of Chicago and a COG poetry finalist award (Judge: Juan Felipe Herrera). She has also received writing fellowships from Sacatar, Ragdale, and Norcroft. Co-edited works include Jane's Stories III with Glenda Bailey-Mershon with whom she and others co-founded Jane's Stories Press.ĭr. Her poetry has also been published in Tupelo Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Cogzine, and Rhino.Įxcerpts of her memory work, The Ariran's Last Life, have been published in Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Let Spirit Speak!, Warpland, Best African American Fiction, and The Kenyon Review. Anthologized poems are included in Gathering Ground, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century, and Catch the Fire. Abegunde is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including Wishful Thinking about the 2001 disappearance of Tionda and Diamond Bradley in Chicago. in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University.ĭr. She is the inaugural recipient of the Ph.D. Her research and creative work are grounded in contemplative and ritual practices and respectfully approach the Earth and human bodies as sites of memory, and always with the understanding that memory never dies, is subversive, and can be recovered to transform transgenerational trauma and pain into peace and power. is a Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, healing facilitator, doula, and a Reiki Master.
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