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PAMELA SNEED

PAMELA SNEED

PAMELA SNEED
Poet, Performance, Professor

ACTIVIST, POET, TEACHER

“Funeral Diva, a Mix of Memoir and Poetry, Stirs the Body and Mind.”

New York Times, Nov. 18, 2020

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Parable of the Sower (an excerpt)

Sometime after Trayvon Martin was shot, I finally understood

something deep about Star Wars

I've always rooted for good guys/always

Once I heard a friend at the movies rooting for Poison Ivy/

Batman and Bat Girl's nemesis

I was shocked that anyone could root for a bad girl

But after Trayvon was killed by George Zimmerman

who walked free

I finally understood what could turn a character's eyes dark

You could become so disillusioned

And then I understood in the Star Wars franchise

what made Darth Vader— Vader

I felt that again after Trump's election

No more green, blue light

Only gray, dark drab, white bones, war

(Pamela Sneed, “Funeral Diva”)

 

… “and every time some queer kid stays alive because they saw us, and read us, and discovered us, we have won.” Pamela Sneed reading at Stonewall 50.

June 26, 2019, 6:30 pm, the Academy of American Poets, Lambda Literary, and The Poetry Project

“I want to stand up and I want to testify

though I haven’t been asked

I want to interrupt

I want to disrupt

all the proceedings

I see all the places black lesbians

have been erased

and silenced

like looking down at a manuscript

and seeing they asked a young white woman

to write about queer history

when it’s been my expertise forever.”

Pamela Sneed reading at Stonewall 50

PAMELA SNEED
Poet, Performance, Professor
PAMELA SNEED

Poet, professor, and performer, Pamela Sneed is the author of Sweet Dreams, Kong, and Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery. She was a Visiting Critic at Yale, and at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and is online faculty at Chicago's School of the Art Institute teaching Human Rights and Writing Art. She also teaches new genres at Columbia's School of the Arts in the Visual Dept. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in Nikki Giovanni's, The 100 Best African American Poems.She has performed at the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, MOMA, Poetry Project, NYU and Pratt Universities, Smack Mellon Gallery, The High Line, Performa, Danspace, Performance Space, Joe's Pub, The Public Theater, SMFA, and BRIC. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

JANET PANETTA

JANET PANETTA
LYNNE SACHS

LYNNE SACHS