Uncle Bobbie’s welcomes authors Kimberly Collins and DeMarris Hill for a poetry conversation and book launch event on their respective books, “Bessie’s Resurrection” and “A Bound Woman Is A Dangerous Thing.” Admission is free and books will be available for purchase!

About the books:
“Bessie’s Resurrection weaves together the stories of three African American women—two historical figures, the third a fictional character—who share the same first name. From the origins of “Bessie” in the ancestral “Elisheba” to the ballads of blues-singer Bessie Smith, the triumphant flights of aviatrix Bessie Coleman, and the violence faced by Bessie Mears (from Richard Wright’s novel Native Son), BESSIE’S RESURRECTION gives voice and power to black women past, present, and future.”

“In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, DeMarris Hill presents bitter, unflinching history that artfully captures the personas of these captivating, bound yet unbridled African-American women. Hill’s passionate odes to Zora Neale Hurston, Lucille Clifton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt, and others also celebrate the modern-day inheritors of their load and light, binding history, author, and reader in an essential legacy of struggle.”