WordSpace gave an award to TBAAL founder and director Curtis King. The man has tremendous faith. He's kept his arts organization alive and vital for 30 years.
Natasha Marin drove in from Boston to share her work. Natasha's a Cave Canem fellow and a conceptual artist who's worked a lot with interdisciplinary collaboration. Her Blackanese project is a project about notions of "African-American-ness" - along the lines of what does it mean to be "Asian"?
Afaa was the superstar of the night, sharing poignant poems and stories about his family and history - including a piece on the suicide of his father. He also read a poem in Chinese which he translated into English. It's called "Hong Kong Aviary" and is beautiful.
