n this episode, Amy speaks with Kathy Z. Kathy is an author, poet and musician. Her latest story Mardi Gras Almost Didn't Come This Year is a children’s picture book, which is about Mardi Gras but also about surviving after the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. Amy and Kathy discuss the book, the importance of black writers and her plans for the future.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
For a long time, black voices haven’t been amplified. It should be black authors writing about black stories and this is something Amy and Kathy really both believe in.
The beauty of peoples’ experiences can truly be shown and heard when someone of that community, with real lived experiences, talks and writes about them. It gives a book and any medium more authenticity as well as a platform for those writers.
The important part of Kathy’s books is that they can bring joy and laughter as well as explore difficult topics such as disenfranchisement. She believes this really ties in with the work that Amy is doing with Mood Connect too.
BEST MOMENTS
“Narratives with bare out the truth in them, what needs to be the truth in them”
“I have a lot of hope in those stories”
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ABOUT THE GUEST
Kathy Z www.kathyzprice.com
Kathy Z. Price is a Cave Canem Fellow. She is also a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Her poetry is included in Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Henry Holt. '' She was awarded an Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship with the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and received a scholarship award for The Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Poet and musician Kathy Z. Price made her debut in the children's-book field with the publication of The Bourbon Street Musicians. Based on the traditional folk tale "The Bremen Town Musicians," The Bourbon Street Musicians, Clarion/Houghton Mifflin received a starred review from ALA Booklist, a National Council of Teachers of English Notable Book Award, a New York Times Book Review and is included in Best Children’s Books of the Year, by Bank Street College. Price's story entertains younger listeners with a lyrical text that swings with the music of New Orleans jazz. The New York Times states: "In her first book for children, Kathy Price has made the journey itself, the story."
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