Piece Description

Suheir Hammad?s work has appeared in over a dozen anthologies and numerous publications. Her own books are Born Palestinian, Born Black and Drops of This Story, both published by Harlem River Press. Suheir has won several awards for her writing, including the Audre Lorde Poetry Award, The Morris Center for Healing Award, a Van Lier Fellowship, and a Sister of Fire Award. She is co-writer and original cast member in the Tony-award winning Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. Her play, Blood Trinity, was produced at the New York Hip Hop Theatre Festival. She is from Brooklyn by way of Palestine. I had a chance to talk with this amazing woman on the 15th of May (Al Nakba) about, families, poetry, and Sam Cooke.