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- Verlag: Gnashing Teeth Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 68
- Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
- Gewicht: 136g
- ISBN-13: 9781966075028
- ISBN-10: 1966075022
- Artikelnr.: 73729721
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson is a San Antonio native, and the city's 1st African American Poet Laureate Emeritus serving a term from 2020 to 2023. After retiring from a twenty year career with Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center, she took on a new career as the Arts Education Coordinator for the Carver Community Cultural Center. Vocab has facilitated creative writing and performance workshops and featured with her poetry and music internationally from conferences to university teaching residencies. Some of her awards include: Courageous Love Award by the First Universalist Unitarian Church 2024. Literary Excellence Award by Gemini Ink 2024. The Arts and Letters Award in 2020 by friends of San Antonio Public Library. Best Literary Advocate by San Antonio Magazine, in 2020. She was voted Best Local Poet in: 2024, 2023, and 2021 by the San Antonio Current. In 2021, she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for her intergenerational oral history initiative, The Echo Project. Vocab's commissioned poetry and voice are featured in several commercials and documentaries. She's had the distinct honor of opening up for the late great Nikki Giovanni, Dr. Cornel West, and Phylicia Rashad. She was recently awarded a Creative Development Grant by National Performance Network, for her collaboration concert with Lubana Al-Quntar that was commissioned by The Carver and Art 2 Action. This theatrical concert debuted at The Carver on May 3, 2024 and is entitled, "The Seasoned Woman," with plans to tour the U.S. in 2025 and 2026.Vocab's debut book is entitled: She Lives In Music, published by Flower Song Press. Her latest book, The Seasoned Woman, is available on Gnashing Teeth Publishing; March 2025. Stream her poetry and music on all major streaming platforms.Visit her website to find out more at: www.andreavocabsanderson.com
