On Friday, November 20th, Augury joined forces with African Voices Magazine to host a night in celebration of the launch of Randall Horton’s Hook. The event featured many special guests and close friends of Horton, who read from their own work, shared anecdotes, and ultimately all expressed a collective feeling of joy for what Hook has become. Our dear friend Dave Bledsoe is credited with all of these photos.
Julia Judge, Mike Miller, Kimberly Steele, Randall Horton, Kate Angus, Nicolas Amara, Carolyn Butts, and Ian Lloyd.
Randall Horton signing copies of Hook.
The crowd at African Voices’ Upper West Side space.
Nkosi Nkululeko.
Tyehimba Jess.
Sally Ann Hard.
Hettie Jones.
Becky Thompson
Linda Perez.
Randall Horton reading from Hook.
Randall Horton and Linda Perez.
Hook.
Randall Horton Featured in OF NOTE magazine
From Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora courtesy of the Public Domain Review
Randall Horton has been featured in The Imprisoned Issue of OF NOTE magazine. OF NOTE magazine is an online journal that features individuals using the arts to promote social activism. Sally-Ann Hard, in reviewing Horton’s work, discusses the importance of spreading awareness about life in prison.
Randall Horton’s poems are the work of a knowing, compassionate witness. He lays out reasons why we should care, why we should be moved to action and why our treatment of people who are imprisoned is an indictment against our moral, ethical and societal values. Writing, in part to relieve the guilt of the choices he made in his own past, his poems ask us to question what kind of justice we have.
We need these poems.”
Read the full review here.
Randall Horton’s book is forthcoming from Augury Books in 2015. Read more on Horton.