Some Gentleness One of These Days, For Sonia Sanchez (by Harmony Holiday)

A montage of archival film footage created by Harmony Holiday to celebrate Sonia Sanchez, in advance of Sanchez's reading with Tongo Eisen-Martin for the Woodberry Poetry Room on March 25, 2021.

Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, and the author of five collections of poetry, including GO FIND YOUR FATHER/A FAMOUS BLUES (2014), NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL (2011), and the forthcoming MAAFA (Spring 2021). She also curates an archive of griot poetics and a related performance series at the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a NYFA fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, and a 2020-2021 research fellowship from the Woodberry Poetry Room.