Wor-Wic Community College is inviting the public to a free event featuring Denice Frohman, a Philadelphia-based poet and performer, on Friday, Sept. 6, at 6 p.m.
Frohman’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Academy of American Poets’ “Poem-A-Day,” “The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext,” “Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color” and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she has performed on hundreds of stages from the Apollo Theater to the White House. Her poetry has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ESPN, Indeed, mitú, the City of Philadelphia and others. Her work was featured as part of the #HereWeAre campaign by Twitter to uplift women’s voices, which aired during the Academy Awards on national television in 2018. Currently, she is developing her one-woman show, “Esto No Tiene Nombre,” which centers the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. She has received support from the Pew Center for the Arts, Baldwin for the Arts, CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Frohman’s performance will take place at Guerrieri Hall on the college campus, located at the corner of Walston Switch Road and Route 50 in Salisbury. No registration is needed. The reading is a kickoff to an inauguration celebration of Deborah Casey, Ph.D., that will encompass various events through Sept. 20. Visit www.worwic.edu/inauguration for more information.