PGAHC's Office of the Poet Laureate Announces The 2024 Festival of Literary Arts
The 2024 Festival of Literary Arts, curated by PGAHC's Office of the Poet Laureate and in celebration of National Poetry Month is here!
Join us for a celebration of literary arts and poetry! Come learn from accomplished poets and hear about their works during this educational and exciting festival.
Prince George's County Poet Laureate - DR. KHADIJAH ALI-COLEMAN
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, Ed.D. is a cultural curator, community organizer, nationally recognized speaker, and writer. A playwright, she has had more than a dozen of her plays presented publicly in venues throughout the country, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Theater Alliance, and Baltimore Theater Project. She was a Theater Alliance Quadrant Playwright from 2019-2021, a 2019 Fulbright-Hays scholar, a 2015 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist awardee and a 2012 Prince George’s County Social Innovation Fund Forty Under 40 awardee.
She is author of the children’s book Mariah’s Maracas and co-editor of the book Homeschooling Black Children in the US: Theory, Practice and Popular Culture. Her work is featured in the anthology The Fire Inside: Collected Stories and Poems from Zora’s Den (ZD, 2020) and the book Afro-Futurism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity and the Remaking of Blackness (Rowan & Littlefield, 2021). She is founder of the multidisciplinary arts company Liberated Muse Arts Group and co-founder of the education research group Black Family Homeschool Educators and Scholars (BFHES).
Dr. Ali-Coleman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (African American Studies and Mass Media) and a minor in Writing from the University of Maryland Baltimore, County; a Master of Arts degree in Mass Communication from Towson University and a doctorate in education from Morgan State University.
Poet Laureate of Prince George’s County, Md, Khadijah Ali-Coleman, presents her poem, “Gorgeous Prince George’s” at the inaugural Downtown Largo Placemaking Festival. She is accompanied by Jabari Exum on djembe.