Semaj Brown Flint Poet Laureate
Radio Free Flint Podcast
English - May 17, 2022 09:30 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSociety & Culture flint michigan arthur busch flint podcast radio free flint radio free flint mi rust belt local podcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Flint Poet Laureate, Semaj Brown gives a spellbinding reading of her environmental injustice poems. Poet Semaj Brown shares stories of working with the child victims of the Flint Water Crisis. Brown is on a mission to help heal the victims of trauma in Flint, Michigan. Semaj Brown is an amazingly accomplished woman who is a poet, author, playwright, and educator, she was named the first poet laureate of Flint, Michigan, in 2019. In 2021, she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. During her time as Flint's first poet laureate, she has been teaching children to write poetry at Flint's Freeman School, helping adults who privately write poetry as a form of healing and spread the good word about the value of the literary arts across the Flint area. In this episode, she reads two of her amazing poems. Her poems focus on Flint and social justice issues. They address issues of loss and empowerment.
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This podcast episode is dedicated to the memory of one of my best friends, Joseph M. Snow of Lansing, Michigan. Joe passed away on November 10, 2022, after a long illness. Joe was a lawyer, labor activist, and long-time member of the Lansing area Peace and Justice Coalition. He was an advocate for the working class and social justice issues. He was very fond of Semaj Brown's poetry.
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Special thanks to Mustards Retreat of Ann Arbor for providing the music for this podcast. Also special thanks to Libby Glover, Dave Tamulevich, David O. Norris, and Dan Hall for their advice and encouragement of Radio Free Flint.
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You can learn more about Semaj Brown and her poems by:
Visiting Semaj's author website Find Semaj Brown at the website of the American Academy of Poets. Read a feature article about Semaj Brown that details her work and background can be located at My City Magazine The East Village Magazine reported that Semaj Brown was honored by the American Academy of Poets by receiving funding for her work with children in the Flint School District: Flint’s first poet laureate awarded $50K to infuse poetry throughout city with focus on literacy---
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