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INNOVATIVE, TRANSFORMATIVE-BLACK DANDELION: CONVERGENT VOICE™CHANGES THE LITERACY GAME | Posted April 14, 2023
“As part of our trademark studies, my students experienced “Branded: The Buying, Frying, Making, Baking of African American Domestic Stereotypes,” a riveting presentation via Zoom from Semaj Brown. She brought history, science, psychology, anthropology, and economics to bear on the issue of what we see when we see product logos. We will never look at them the same way again.”
Professor Susan M. Kornfield, J.D. | University of Michigan – Law School
INTERVIEWS
Michigan Council of Teachers of English celebrate 100 years with theme ‘Where do we go from here? Chaos…’ to Community
Posted Nov. 30, 2022
The House of Joy
Posted Nov 20, 2022
AT&T RECOGNIZES THE POEM BLACK DANDELION, AND A NEW MULTIMEDIA PLATFORM IS BORN
Posted Sept. 24, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, MA | A Living Legacy | Af-Am Point of View
Posted Feb. 1, 2022
NEW YORK, NY | Poets Laureate Fellows Interview | poets.org
Posted Nov. 22, 2021
Meet Flint’s Poet Laureate Semaj Brown | MyCity Magazine
Posted SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Stateside with April Baer | Michiganradio.org
Posted July 16, 2021
Poet Laureate Civic Project launched with ZBZ of ZPHI BETA Sorority, Inc. | ABC12
Posted Oct. 14, 2021
Ethan Wang Interviews Flint Poet Laureate | National Student of Poet Inquiry
Posted Sept. 30, 2021
Flint’s First Poet Laureate | East Village Magazine
Posted on Jun 16, 2021
The Courier News
Posted June 4, 2021
Radio Free Flint with Arthur Busch
June 8 2021
Semaj Brown on Amanda Gorman | Insight into NE Michigan
Semaj Brown | Flint Michigan’s First Poet Laureate | speaks about Amanda Gorman on Insight into Northeast Michigan, a WBKB News Public Affairs Program. March 26, 2021
The “Mother Ocean” Odyssey with Deborah D. Conrad
1. I learned years ago from a bible scholar I admire that poet and prophet are the same word in Hebrew. This is part of the reason that Woodside has begun our habit of reading modern poets as part of our worship (that, and the United Church of Christ assertion that “God is still speaking”). How might it feel to you to have someone call you a prophet?
Indiana University
Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow/Associate Professor Otrude Moyo, PhD, utilized “Mother Ocean (The Making of a New Tribe)” in her diversity seminar and is facilitating use of Brown’s additional writings for “Examining Power, Oppression, and Complicity: A Community Dialogue” at the Indiana University of South Bend, Civil Rights Heritage Center, and Alumni Association “Listening to Semaj brought joy, physical and spiritual to me… kind of a cathartic experience. The comingling of different worlds, the tangible and intangible, had the power to calm me. Her voice, her words and the spirit of sharing managed to lower my pressure. I had been struggling for a change. I felt light and conscious of all my being.” Posted Dec. 21, 2020
Alabama Contemporary Museum of Art | Artist Talk
Artist Talk with Jasmine Murrell featuring Poet Semaj Brown. Posted Oct. 25, 2020
NPR Affiliate Michigan Radio – Stateside, Host April Behr
Posted March 16, 2020
Writer Bush “Word on the Street”
Posted 2020
Piper Carter Podcast
Posted Aug. 22, 2020
Dr. John Telford Radio Show
Posted Aug. 8, 2019
NPR Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson
Posted 2019
Stateside with April Baer | Michiganradio.org
Posted July 16, 2017
Jason Isaacs’ Black Love Project Interview
Posted 2017
Reviews/Media
The Courier News – Community-Wide Convergent Voice Workshop exceeds expectations
Posted March 28, 2023
The Courier News – Upcoming poetry workshop and forum expected to birth transformation
Posted March 9, 2023
GRAND BLANC COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
WMS Students Respond to Flint Poet’s ‘Black Dandelion’ for Black History Class | Posted Spring 2023
AT&T Recognizes the Poem Black Dandelion, and a New Multimedia Platform is Born | Black Enterprise
Posted Sept. 2022
The Harlem Renaissance lives on-in Flint! | The Courier
Posted Nov. 10, 2021
MLive
Posted Jun. 24, 2021
Flint poet laureate aims to bring community together through poetry programs | FlintBeat
Posted JUNE 19, 2021
Grand Blanc View
Local Writer Named Flint’s First Poet Laureate | Posted June 17, 2021
Cars 108
Posted June 9, 2021
Semaj awarded 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship
Posted June 2021
Detroit Free Press
Posted June 3, 2021
Flint Beat – Resilience, wholeness, Black girl magic: Poet Semaj Brown’s powerful performance
“Semaj Brown is not used to performing inside of a box. She said so on Feb. 24, during a live poetry reading and discussion over Zoom, with the Woodside Church. She’s used to the stage, but that didn’t stop her from putting on a theatrical performance of her poem “Mother Ocean,” complete with a light blue ruffle fabric backdrop, blue gems along her forehead, various voices, claps, snaps, and facial expressions…” -Amy Diaz, writer for Arts and Culture Flint Beat
Flint Beat – Flint Poet Laureate to perform work in virtual event
Posted Feb. 23, 2021
Join the Conversation Indiana University Release
Posted Dec. 21, 2020
Word Power Univ. of Mich-Flint Dept. of English
Posted Aug. 12, 2020
Flint Side
Posted Aug. 2020
East Village Magazine /Semaj Brown at the Flint Institute of Arts
Posted Feb. 2, 2020
East Village Magazine /Poet Laureate Launches Literacy Project
Posted Nov. 16, 2019
Poets.org – Semaj Brown
Posted Nov. 15, 2019
Book Beat
Posted Nov. 6, 2019
HEARD ON DETROIT TODAY WITH STEPHEN HENDERSON
Posted Nov. 1, 2019
The Flint Courier – Meet Semaj Brown
Posted Oct. 31, 2019
Nonprofit Quarterly
Posted Oct. 10, 2019
Poetry Foundation
Posted Oct. 10, 2019
Flint names Semaj Brown as city’s first poet laureate
Posted Oct. 08, 2019
Bleeding Fire at Mott Warsh Review
Posted Aug. 26, 2019
Flint Side
Posted Aug. 21, 2019
THE HUB FLINT – The Art of Resilience
Posted April 2017
DETROIT NEWS GO! Tribal Art
Posted Fed. 9, 2017
MyCity Mag – Veggie Virtuoso
Posted Jan. 1, 2014
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