Pamela Sneed: America is Ready
Flag (2024), watercolor. image / provided
Teiger Mentor in the Arts Lecture Series
Abstract
A poetic presentation about the vital role arts play in the culture, predicated on Audre Lorde's Poetry is not a Luxury.
Biography
Pamela Sneed is a New York City-based poet, performer, visual artist, and educator. She is the author of Funeral Diva (City Lights, 2020) and Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery (Fordham University Press). Funeral Diva won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry. Sneed has toured poetry and performance works domestically and abroad. Her recent show, A Tribute to Big Mama Thornton, premiered in 2024 at the Torpedo Theater in Amsterdam. She won a 2023 Creative Capital award in literature as well as a 2024 NYSCA grant in poetry. Her visual work has appeared in group shows at the Ford Foundation, Company Gallery, and more.
Pamela Sneed is the Fall 2024 Teiger Mentor in the Arts.
