Book Spotlight: Natalie Giarratano’s “Big Thicket Blues”
Written by Teodrose Fikre, March 31, 2017, 0 Comments
This was recorded live on scene at Wolverine Farm Bookstore in Fort Collins, Colorado for Natalie Giarratano’s book launch. Natalie is a poet, a prolific writer and a thinker with a heart for social justice. Check below the Ustream screen to find out more about Natalie and her work. Support independent thinkers and writers, they are the conscience of our society for they speak out of passion instead of profit motives.
Below are the raw feeds of the book launch from Wolverine Farm. Due to technical issues the broadcast was aired in two parts, check back here soon as a final video is being edited and will be available as one continuous YouTube video in the space below.
Part I
Part II
Who is Natalie Giarratano?
Originally from small-town Southeast Texas, Natalie Giarratano received her Ph.D. in creative writing from Western Michigan University. She is the author of Big Thicket Blues (Sundress Publications, January 2017) and Leaving Clean, winner of the 2013 Liam Rector First Book Prize in Poetry (Briery Creek Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Sakura Review, Black Tongue Review, Beltway Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, Tinderbox, and TYPO, among others. She’s a freelance editor and lives in Northern Colorado with her partner, their daughter, and pup.
To find out more about Natalie Giarratano, check her out on Facebook (link), follow her on Twitter @NattyGiarratano and click on her picture below to visit her website. If you support independent writers and thinkers, tweet this article out using #BigThicketBlues
Teodrose Fikre
Teodrose was born in Ethiopia the same year Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by the communist Derg junta. The grand-son of Emperor Atse Tewodros Kassa II, the greatest king of Ethiopia, Teodrose is clearly influenced by the history and his connection to Ethiopia. Through his experiences growing up as first generation refugee in America, Teodrose writes poignantly about the universal experiences of joys, pains and a hope for a better tomorrow that binds all of humanity.
Teodrose has written extensively about the intersection of politics, economic policies, identity, and history. He is the author of "Serendipity's Trace" and newly released "Soul to Soil", two works that inspect the ways we are dissected as a people and shows how we can overcome injustice through the inclusive vision of togetherness.
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