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Marguerite "Ezili Danto" Laurent
Marguerite "Ezili Danto" Laurent
- Stamford, CT 06905
- Phone: 203 829 7210
- E-mail: erzilidanto@yahoo.com
- Website: http://ezilidanto.com
Author's Bio
Ezili Dantò/Marguerite Laurent is a performance poet and playwright. She is the author/performer of the one-woman performance series - Red, Black & Moonlight. She is a human rights lawyer, cultural and political activist and the founder and president of the Ezili’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network. She runs the Haitian Perspectives on-line journal and the Ezili Dantò Newsletter.
Publications and Prizes
Performances:
Red, Black & Moonlight, Austin Arts Center - Hartford, CT (2008), St. Martin Book Fair - St. Martin (2006), Celebrating Haiti's Bicentennial, Carnegie Hall - New York, NY (2004), Stamford Center for the Arts - Stamford, CT (2001)Prizes:
Connecticut Playwright Fellowship,
Vermont Writing Center Residency,
Urban Artist Grant from Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Mayor's Art Grant from Stamford
Personal Favorites
Favorite Books:
The Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, the Four Vedas, Upanishads, The Gnostic Gospels, Lapriyè Ginen, The Prophet, Moor's Last Sigh, Midnight's Children, Coming Through Slaughter, The Soul of Black Folks (DuBois), Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Wretched of the Earth, If (Rudyard Kipling), Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself (Walt Whitman), Splendor In the Grass (William Wordsworth), One Hundred Years of Solitude, Two Thousand Seasons (Ayi Kwei Armah), Lea Kokoyé and Ti Sentaniz (Maurice Sixto), Self Evident (DiFranco)Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the writers listed in it.
Listing last updated: December 4, 2008
More Information
Listed as:
Spoken Word ArtistGives readings?
YesTravels for readings?
YesIdentifies as:
African AmericanPrefers to work with:
AnyBorn in:
HaitiRaised in:
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