Black History Picture Books

A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks

With a voice both wise and witty, Gwendolyn Brooks crafted poems that captured the urban Black experience and the role of women in society. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, reading and writing constantly from a young age, her talent lovingly nurtured by her parents. Brooks ultimately published 20 books of poetry, two autobiographies, and one novel. Alice Faye Duncan has created her own song to celebrate Gwendolyn’s life and work, illuminating the tireless struggle of revision and the sweet reward of success.

Alice Faye Duncan | Xia Gordon | Sterling Children’s Books, 2019

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I just finished putting together Issue 19 of the magazine! I've learned so much from the process of working on this issue, and I've met so many new people along the way, so I'm thrill to finally share it with you all. Since putting out issue 18 in the January, I've been working on various projects between New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and slowly piecing together this issue along the way. I feel like recently I've become more and more consumed and involved with the work of the artists I've been able to talk to through FORGE, and it's led to some collaborations that I'm excited to share later on in the year. As I take more opportunities to make personal work or produce work with other artists, I'm excited to see how it'll affect the shape the magazine takes in the future. In a lot of ways this issue gives some foreshadowing to the ways I hope to support more artists in the future and the role the magazine will have in creating a platform for unique projects! Thanks so much to everyone who has committed any time or energy to making this issue possible! I'm so glad I had the chance to include all of the artist that are featured in this one, and I hope you enjoy learning more about their work! It's been a crazy undertaking, and I hope that each of you can take something valuable away from this one!

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New Titles Yours by Margot Ferrick 100 by Nou By Monday I’ll be Floating in the Hudson with the Other Garbage by Laura Lannes It Felt Like Nothing by Fifi Martinez Kindling by Xia Gordon A Tunnel To Another Place by Apolo Cacho 2001 by Blaise Larmee Architecture of an Atom by Juliacks

🙌🏿📚 New January Picture Book Release📚 🙌🏿

A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks

Alice Faye Duncan

Illustrated by Xia Gordon

Sterling Children’s Books

January 1, 2019

Acclaimed writer Alice Faye Duncan tells the story of poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. With a voice both wise and witty, Gwendolyn Brooks crafted poems that captured the urban Black experience and the role of women in society. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, reading and writing constantly from a young age, her talent lovingly nurtured by her parents. Brooks ultimately published 20 books of poetry, two autobiographies, and one novel. Alice Faye Duncan has created her own song to celebrate Gwendolyn’s life and work, illuminating the tireless struggle of revision and the sweet reward of success.

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Altcomics 10 + Drippy Eye Record Club

7—11PM 11.12  Secret Project Robot  1186 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11221

Margot Ferrick Xia Gordon Laura Lannes Jack Reese Tommi Parrish Kyung Me

FORGE. Art Magazine has teamed up with alternative comics publisher @2dcloud  and psychedelic projectionists Drippy Eye Projections to curate a reading and light show during the CURRENTS gallery show at Secret Project Robot on Sunday November 12th (the day after @comicartsbrooklyn!) The event will feature comic readings by cartoonists Margot Ferrick, Xia Gordon, Laura Lanes, Jack Reese, Tommi Parrish, and Kyung Me. After the readings Drippy Eye will host a Record Club where they'll select two surprise records and invite the audience to listen and watch an improvised light show performed to the music. During both records we ask for there to be no talking so you can fully dive into the audio/visual experience. Suggest a record for Drippy Eye to play during the light show to [email protected]

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