Ofrenda: para las ancestras
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Ofrenda para las ancestras is a poetic ritual reconciling the crossroads of identities that compose Edwaujonte’s bloodline — African, Indigenous, and European.
“what is the price of discovering your roots?
is it the $79 cheek swab?
plantation tours of the floors your famil
Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte
Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte (formerly Veit Jones) is a poet, writer, educator, genealogist, healer, and organizer. In the continuum of the Black Arts Movement, Edwaujonte synthesizes ancestral traditions, creative practice, and Hip-Hop culture as an Afro-Indigenous folkloric praxis. Prolific has been a featured speaker at institutions including Cornell University, Columbia University, Rikers Island, STooPS, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, SOB's, and the Weeksville Heritage Center. Timothy has been published in African Voices, The Inquisitive Eater, Voicemail Poems, the Dancing While Black 2012-2018 Community Syllabus, 12th Street, the graphic novel Gunplay, the Penmanship Book anthology 30/30 Vol. 2, The Ferguson Moment, and YRB Magazine. Tim was a Riggio Writing and Democracy Fellow at The New School, and is a graduate fellow at The Watering Hole. He is the author of "Prolific," "Musaic: 40 Days, 40 Nights," and "Ofrenda para las ancestras."
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