Magazine Launch
Welcome visitors! Here is our showcase of spoken word pieces from the voices behind The Rev, the creative arts magazine from Russell Sage College, and CreativityUnleashed. Listen to our editors as they share their hopes, their insights, and their thoughts with our ever growing, international community.
Opening Remarks by Angie Smith,
Professor at Russell Sage College and Founder of CREATIVITYUNLEASHED
Our Featured Pieces and Readings/Recordings
Ashley Busby
Heather Gilchrist
Angie Smith
Laurel Petersen
Maverick Douglas - Writing Editor from The Rev
Maysoon Sheikh
Ashley Busby & Ethan Alcee
Ozge Erdur
Daniela Withington, Art Editor from The Rev
Maverick Douglas
Jacqueline Hilliard
Hunter Chaney
In Honour Of National Poetry Month, Guest Poet D. Colin!
D Colin is a multidisciplinary artist of Haitian descent.
Her work has appeared in Trolley, Ink & Nebula, Jaded Ibis Press and Porter Gulch Review. She is the author of Dreaming in Kreyol and Said the Swing to the Hoop. She has been featured on PBS, Write About Now, NPR and has performed throughout the United States and internationally.
Beyond poetry, D. Colin has navigated the stage as an actor performing in productions with Black Theater Troupe of Upstate NY and Creative Action Unlimited. Her one woman show Simone appeared at Capital Rep Theater and she has spent years performing reenactments most often as Sojourner Truth. As an emerging artist, she has shown art at the Underground Railroad Education Center, Albany Center Gallery and the Arts Center of the Capital Region.
Although she grew up in Connecticut, she has called New York's capital region home since 2007. With an educational background in English and Africana Studies, her work, no matter the medium, discusses the human condition, aims to create visibility and uses history and activism as its foundation. She is the 2022 Excellence in Arts & Letters Award recipient for UAlbany's Alumni Association.
She is also a Cave Canem, VONA and New York State Writers Institute fellow. She currently sits on the board for The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Black Dimensions in Art and is a founding member of the Social Justice Artist Collective. She believes in Nina Simone's words that "an artist's duty is to reflect the times" and often says, "if the art didn't move you, then I didn't do my job."
CLOSING REMARKS - EDITH SANDULESCU, CREATIVITYUNLEASHED
Animation by Kami Perkins, Russell Sage College
