Feeding Off Of The North Star: Poetry Reading with Cyd Charisse Fulton

Cyd Charisse Fulton will read poems for her collection Feeding Off of the North Star, inspired by the Life & Legacy of Harriet Tubman.

This 10th anniversary reading of Fulton’s work is presented by aaduna, with support in part from Tour Cayuga, Cayuga County Office of Tourism, an anonymous donor, and the Friends of Seymour Library. Refreshments will be provided at this free event.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Cyd Charisse Fulton hails from Brooklyn, NY as a writer also founder and editor of Emphat!c Press. She is a graduate of New York University and is a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee. Her poetry is included in Stand Our Ground, I Want My Poetry To…, and Dovetail anthologies, aaduna.org electronic magazine, as well as Author’s Den and Wordpeace literary journals. Cyd’s poetry highlights in Rest Is Power (Sept. 7 – Oct. 22, 2023), a Center for Black Visual Culture, NYU exhibition curated by Photographer and scholar Deborah Willis, PhD and Dr. Joan Morgan at the Cooper Square Gallery.

Her art was featured during the 2023 My Soul’s Sistahs Celebrate Womanhood in Rochester, NY hosted by LutonyaRachel Highsmith, 2023 Richard Bruce Nugent: Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance in Hoboken, NJ, 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, 2015 NYU Gallatin School Arts Festival Black Lives Matter, 2014 Washington, DC celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hudson County Community College’s 2013 Poetry and Spoken Word gala, The Mariposa Retreat Reunion at The Writer’s Center in Maryland, Louder Arts, Cave Canem, Nuyorican Poets Café, Bowery Poetry Club, and the 100th Anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman recognition gala in Auburn, NY.

Spring 2016, Cyd produced and directed BlackLove: Amiri Baraka, presented at the NYU Gallatin, Jerry H. Labwitz Theatre for the Performing Arts. Ms. Fulton produced and hosted the 2014 poetry event for the Black Theater Network conference at the National Black Theater in Harlem. Her chapbooks Feeding Off of the North Star and Emphatic Radical are tools for social change.