Artist description Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie is a poet, writer and journalist. Ms. Tallie is Senior Writer for African Voices literary magazine where she has worked since 1995. Her poetry and fiction have been published in several journals in the United States, France and South Africa. Her works have been anthologized in Listen Up! (One World/Ballantine) and Catch The Fire!!! A Cross Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (Penguin/Putnam). More work is forthcoming in Bum Rush The Page: Def Jam Poetry Anthology(scheduled for release in September 2001) and Role Call (scheduled for release in October).

Artist History Ms. Tallie performs her poetry regularly and has been a featured reader at the De Nachten festivals in Holland and Belgium, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Brooklyn Moon Cafe, Rutgers University, Hunter College, Barnes and Noble, Bryant Park, Mills College, Brooklyn Public library. She has collaborated with dancers and musicians, most notably for the "Jazz and the Spoken Word "segment of the Panasonic Village Jazz Festival, with Mingus Amungus in California and Words and Waistbeads Womans Collective in New York City. Ms Tallie also worked with Gerard Gaskin and Caroline Poon for an exhibition of words, photography and pottery titled "The Experiment." In 1999 Ms. Tallie was awarded a residency at Fundacion Valparaiso in Almeria, Spain.

Albums Lest We Forget-Drum FM "The Spirit"

Additional Info http://www.africana.com/Column/bl_voices_04.htm , http://www.whenbutterflieskiss.com

Location Amsterdam/Oakland/New York, Holland/USA - Netherlands

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