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This is a recording of the FY24 Fellowship Panel Review for applicants of Literary Poetry. These panels were recorded on August 30, 2023. A list of all the public meetings can be found here: nvartscouncil.org/about/public-meeting-notices
About our Panelists:
makalani bandele
makalani bandele was raised in Louisville, KY, and still resides there. He is an Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem fellow. He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Obsidian Foundation, Kentucky Arts Council, Millay Colony, and Vermont Studio Center. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a BA in the Program of Liberal Studies, as well as a graduate of Shaw University with a Master of Divinity in Biblical Studies, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky. His work has been published in several anthologies, and widely in print and online journals, African-American Review, Killens Review of Arts and Letters, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and Sou’wester to name a few. Most recently works from his manuscript, (jopappy & the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk, which won Futurepoem Books’ 2022 Other Futures Award and is slated to be published in 2024, appears in Washington Square Review, Poetry Northwest, The Common, and theHythe. He has two other full-length collections of poems under the aegis of a winged mind, winner of the 2019 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press, 2020) and hellfightin’, published by Willow Books/Aquarius Press in 2011.
Ashanti Anderson
Ashanti Anderson (they/them) is a Black Queer Disabled poet, screenwriter, and playwright. Their debut short poetry collection, Black Under, is the winner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition at Black Lawrence Press. Their poems have appeared in World Literature Today, POETRY magazine, and elsewhere in print and on the web. Learn more about Ashanti’s previous & latest shenanigans at ashanticreates.com.
Brent Ameneyro
Brent Ameneyro is a poet and music artist. He is the author of the chapbook Puebla (Ghost City Press, 2023) and the collection A Face Out of Clay (The Center for Literary Publishing, 2024). His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, Azahares, Hispanic Culture Review,and elsewhere.
He is the 2022-2023 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves as the Poetry Editor at The Los Angeles Review.
As a music artist, he has scored several short films which have been featured in Cannes Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Festival, and elsewhere. He has composed over five albums of avant-garde music with his brother Kent Ameneyro and has performed live in Seattle, Portland, San Jose, Los Angeles, and other cities.
This is a recording of the FY24 Fellowship Panel Review for applicants of Literary Poetry. These panels were recorded on August 30, 2023. A list of all the public meetings can be found here: nvartscouncil.org/about/public-meeting-notices
About our Panelists:
makalani bandele
makalani bandele was raised in Louisville, KY, and still resides there. He is an Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem fellow. He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Obsidian Foundation, Kentucky Arts Council, Millay Colony, and Vermont Studio Center. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a BA in the Program of Liberal Studies, as well as a graduate of Shaw University with a Master of Divinity in Biblical Studies, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky. His work has been published in several anthologies, and widely in print and online journals, African-American Review, Killens Review of Arts and Letters, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and Sou’wester to name a few. Most recently works from his manuscript, (jopappy & the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk, which won Futurepoem Books’ 2022 Other Futures Award and is slated to be published in 2024, appears in Washington Square Review, Poetry Northwest, The Common, and theHythe. He has two other full-length collections of poems under the aegis of a winged mind, winner of the 2019 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press, 2020) and hellfightin’, published by Willow Books/Aquarius Press in 2011.
Ashanti Anderson
Ashanti Anderson (they/them) is a Black Queer Disabled poet, screenwriter, and playwright. Their debut short poetry collection, Black Under, is the winner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition at Black Lawrence Press. Their poems have appeared in World Literature Today, POETRY magazine, and elsewhere in print and on the web. Learn more about Ashanti’s previous & latest shenanigans at ashanticreates.com.
Brent Ameneyro
Brent Ameneyro is a poet and music artist. He is the author of the chapbook Puebla (Ghost City Press, 2023) and the collection A Face Out of Clay (The Center for Literary Publishing, 2024). His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, Azahares, Hispanic Culture Review,and elsewhere.
He is the 2022-2023 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves as the Poetry Editor at The Los Angeles Review.
As a music artist, he has scored several short films which have been featured in Cannes Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Festival, and elsewhere. He has composed over five albums of avant-garde music with his brother Kent Ameneyro and has performed live in Seattle, Portland, San Jose, Los Angeles, and other cities.
