Re-Awakening

 

The process of renewal, re-birth, reconnecting are innate life experiences most people have dealt with. When that happens, there is an individual or collective sense of discovering those things that were readily known or embracing the opportunity to explore something new, and possibly grasping certain unique experiences that inevitably re-charge our spirit and strengthen our soul. 

The inaugural poets and writers that graced the initial issue of aaduna were unique in that they charted the pathway; set the bar for subsequent contributors and built a formidable creative presence as their ongoing work found new publication avenues. It is understandable, that the rapid spread of Covid-19 darkened the spaces where literary folks presented their work to the public. To their credit, creatives discovered that dormancy is not permanent. It ebbs and flows but is not constant. And clearly, not an obstacle to diminish or deter the creative flow.    

 One of those inaugural poets is an “adopted” entity. A poet tenderly hugged by residents of the city of Auburn. Her presence at aaduna readings enabled her to build a regional fan base and folks in Auburn look forward to her ‘annual’ presence. While the pandemic temporarily halted her public readings, she is back, and as fierce as ever.

Cyd Charisse Fulton (photo provided)

Cyd Charisse Fulton, is editorial assistant at Black Renaissance Noire, Institute of African American Affairs, NYU and founder of Emphat!c Press. A 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee, her work is featured in Stand Our Ground, I Want My Poetry To…, and Dovetail anthologies, aaduna, Author’s Den and WordPeace literary journals. Cyd featured her poems during Summerstage 2016 in Brooklyn, NY, 2016 Black History Month Say It Loud program at NYU Gallatin, Remembering the Harlem Renaissance 2015 at Theater Mack in Auburn, NY, the 2015 People’s State of the Union Poetic Address to the Nation, 2014 Washington, DC celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Mariposa Retreat Reunion at The Writer’s Center in Maryland, Louder Arts, Cave Canem, Nuyorican Poets Café, Bowery Poetry Club, and was the featured speaker at the 2013 100th Anniversary Harriet Tubman recognition gala in Auburn, NY.

In 2016, Ms. Fulton produced and directed “Amiri Baraka: Black Love,” a poetic tribute at NYU. Cyd is a 2016 Downtown Urban Arts Festival finalist whose play “Educated and Still Trapped” was presented at the Cherry Hill Theater in New York. Her chapbooks “Feeding Off of the North Star” and “Emphatic Radical” are tools for social change. Fulton wrote 12 poems for the 9th Annual My Mother’s Wish, My Sister’s Heart Foundation held on October 28, 2018 in Atlanta. Her finalized poetry manuscript “Equitable Rage” was read at “Fierce” a three-women poetry reading co-sponsored by the National Park Service with aaduna at the National Women’s Rights Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY in November 2018.

 She will bring her work to aaduna’s October 2022 fundraiser for one night only.

ATTENTION!
Meet Cyd in person on October 27th as she performs at aaduna's 6th Annual Fundraiser Gala, "Celebrating the Legacy of Harriet Tubman in the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance..."

Doors open at 5:30PM ~Tickets $20 at the door.

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