TEDxWDC Fred Joiner
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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism
Fred Joiner is a poet/artist/curator living in Washington DC. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora, Gargoyle, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas and in other publications. Fred has read his work throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area and in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he is working on a long term multidisciplinary collaboration and exchange between Northern Irish artists (courtesy of Belfast Exposed Archives and Gallery) and Washington DC poets. He is a curator and of literary and art-related events including the American Poetry Museum's INTERSECTIONS Reading Series, Hillyer Artspace's HOME Series, the Phillips Collection's Voices Series and others. Joiner is also the literary editor the peer -reviewed scholarly hip-hop journal Words, Beats and Life and the Tidal Basin Review. Fred is also the webmaster for the TEDxWDC website, tedxwdc.com
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