Poetry reading of three women activist-writers from the Harlem Renaissance profiled in Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Maureen Honey, Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression.
Professor Honey will be joined by readers and fellow English faculty Kwakiutl Dreher, Amelia María De La Luz Montes, and Hope Wabuke.