Love Affects

November 17, 2022, 6:30pm @ The Boston Athenaeum
Synopsis:
Love Affects pairs music with text to explore how love influences our sense of self, humanity, heritage, and future. Co-curated with and featuring Castle of our Skins’ Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence, poet Angel C. Dye.

About Castle of our Skins
Castle of our Skins is a Black arts institution dedicated to fostering cultural curiosity and celebrating Black artistry through music. In classrooms, concert halls, and beyond, Castle of our Skins invites Black heritage and culture exploration, spotlighting both unsung and celebrated figures of past and present.

Angel’s bio can be found below:
ANGEL C. DYE is a poet, scholar of African American Literature and the author of BREATHE (Central Square Press). She is from Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas/Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a graduate of Howard University, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky, where she was a Nikky Finney fellow. Dye has received fellowships from The Watering Hole and Furious Flower Poetry Center and her work has appeared in About Place Journal, The Pierian Journal, African Voices Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and A Gathering Together Journal, among other places. Dye writes in the tradition of Lucille Clifton, Amiri Baraka, and Sterling A. Brown, striving to carry on their legacies of unapologetic blackness in the face of oppression, radical self-love, and artistic activism. She aims to discover, as Audre Lorde explains, “the words [she does] not yet have,” and is currently a PhD in English student at Rutgers University.