Tonight with special guest Annie Finch! Join us for our little birthday party and an intersectional feminist gathering!

 

Dear reader,

This year, OyeDrum celebrates five years of publishing and commemorating female voices. We are proud of the extraordinary artists, authors, writers, poets, performers, musicians, and fascinating women we’ve interviewed and featured and with whom we’ve had the privilege to work with. But what we are most proud of is having fostered an international and national intersectional feminist community and support system through our public programming and events, where we connect and re-connect.

Now, more than ever, is a time for unity, caring for each other during these uncertain times, and exploring ways to help ourselves and each other. We want to celebrate female joy, creativity, and OyeDrum in these dark times. Joy is under attack, and we must resist.

Let’s come together next week for some delicious cocktails at Dada Cafe, some readings and our special guest, Annie Finch! 

The pop-up gallery is no longer happening, but there will be art—art and magic!

Love,
The OyeDrum Coven

 

Annie Finch is an award-winning poet, writer, and ritual performance artist. She is the author of seven poetry collections including Spells and Among the Goddesses, as well as over a dozen books of poetry translation, verse theater, writings on poetic craft, ritual, and the Divine Feminine, and the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. Founder of Poetry Witch Ritual Theater, she earned a Ph.D from Stanford University, collaborates frequently with music, theater, and dance, and shares her teachings at Poetry Witchery Substack and classes.anniefinch.com. She is based in Brooklyn and offers workshops and performances worldwide.

S. E. Hamlet is an Afro-Caribbean writer, educator, poet, and disability activist with albinism from the island of Grenada. She attained her Bachelor of Education from the University of the West Indies and her MFA in Creative Writing at the City Collage of New York. Alongside her own anthology of poetry ‘Musings in Serendipity’, her work has been published in ARC Magazine in the Caribbean, Albinism Insight, the magazine of the National Organization of Albinism and Hyper-pigmentation in the United States, and SHE Magazine in the Unites Kingdom. Currently, she is pursuing Doctoral scholarship, performing poetry under her stage name “TheWordyPhoenix” and training her mind to continue writing like she’s running out of time.

Neda Zahraie is a writer, musician, painter, filmmaker and actress based in NYC. She is a founding member of OyeDrum and has served as a Poetry and Fiction Editor for over two years, and was most recently the fiction editor for volume five. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, Bar Scraps & Bathroom Confessionals (2010), and Anamnesis. She holds an M.A. in English Literature from the City College of New York, is a Persian/English interpreter and translator, and has a certificate of French Language & Civilization from Université Paris-Sorbonne.

 

 

Amarantha da Cruz is a New York City-born Brazilian American queer writer, editor, curator, witch, and founder of OyeDrum Magazine. She studied film as an undergrad and then obtained her master’s degree from Pratt Institute in Arts and Cultural Business/Management and an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. Her writing has been recognized with awards, prizes, and residencies, including the Danielle and Larry Nyman Family Project Award, The Goodman Fund Grants, and the Barcelona International Residence for Artists and Researchers (Jiwar). Her projects have been featured in the New York Times, BBC, and other outlets.