First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic Presented by the Writers Guild with Abegunde and Eric Rensberger

Maria Hamilton Abegunde is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.
She is the commissioned poet for the Sister Song and Ancestral
Masquerades exhibitions. Her research, creative work, and
teaching address violence, genocide, sexual violence, historical and
generational traumas, contemplative practices, memory, and West
African-based healing practices. Her most recent and upcoming
works can be found in the books Trouble the Waters: Tales from
the Deep Blue, Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine
Revolution, So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy,
Loss, Abortion, and Birth, and in the journals Obsidian, North
Meridian Review, Massachusetts Review, Tupelo Quarterly,
and FIRE!!!. Abegunde is a Cave Canem, Sacatar, Ragdale, and
NEH summer fellow. She is currently a Black Earth Institute
fellow, and over the next three years will complete a project that
integrates art, spirituality, and social justice. 
Eric Rensberger is a Bloomington poet and writer who finds
subject matter in his daily life. His daily life includes
sunrise, preoccupations, fantasies, stray thoughts, memories,
feelings, and sunset. Much of his work can be found on the website
ericrensbergerpoetry.net.