Author Talk with KINDRED STORIES: Golden Ax with Rio Cortez & Ariana Brown
Mon, Sep 26
|Crowdcast
Join Cafe con Libros and Kindred Stores as we celebrate the release of Golden Ax with Rio Cortez and poet author, Ariana Brown.


Time & Location
Sep 26, 2022, 8:00 PM
Crowdcast
About the Event
About the Book
“Outstanding . . . the poetry in these pages is intelligent, lyrical, as invested in the past as the present and future with witty nods to pop culture.” —Roxane Gay, author of Hunger “I’ve never read anything like it. Truly a sublime experience.” —Jason Reynolds, author of Ain’t Burned All the Bright A groundbreaking collection about Afropioneerism past and present from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures. In poems that range from wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors—some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction—Golden Ax invites…