Mosaic Literary Conference MLC provides a platform for literature-based
creative thinking and knowledge sharing. Each year we invite
educators, community and arts organizations, and artists to
participate in various professional-development workshops.
The festival also showcases panel discussions, films, and live
performances. Prior to 2009 this event was known as the
Re:Verse Literary Conference
Re:Verse
Festival 2008
Saturday, October 25
Re:Verse Literary Conference & Festival calls for educators
to foster the role literature plays in the lives of students
and youth. The conference seeks to rebuild the audience for
literature as a means for understanding culture, history,
and social studies. Re:Verse celebrates the diversity of
thought literature fosters.
Location: Hostos Community College, Bronx NY Click here
for conference highlights
Reverse Festival 2004
Saturday, October 2 A screening of the PBS documentary
I’ll Make Me A World, which features
Gwendolyn Brooks
Panel: Digitizing Words Using digital media to express yourself Troy Johnson, AALBC.com; DuEwa Frazier, poet and publisher; James Lisbon, AMag founder; Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, poet and blogger
Poetry readings and open mic Samiya Bashir, R. Erica Doyle, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Reverse Festival 2003 Saturday, September 20
Reverse Festival 2003: Flix, Flow & Freestyle launched
the inaugural festival with a strong line-up of some of the smartest
wordsmiths–legends from the birth of spoken word to the current group of
torchbearers; an open mic session; a panel on independent media and publishing;
and film screenings that include a documentary on the life of a seminal poet.
Panel: Vocal Cords: Independent Publishing in a Dependent Age focuses on the
urgency and importance of independent media and publishing. Lisa Moore, Red Bone
Press; Annette Atim Otim, Indigo Magazine; Glenda Johnson, The Citizen;
and Carolyn Butts, African Voices.
Film screening: A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
Poetry Reading: Samiya Bashir, Roger Bonair Agard, Willie Perdomo, and
Victoria Sammartino
The Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt
not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through
education, creative thinking, and new media.
The Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt
not-for-profit arts organization that supports the literary arts through
education, creative thinking, and new media.
