Pride & Poetry
CRS is celebrating Pride Month by hosting Pride & Poetry on June 30, a free open mic with two featured poets, Tarnynon Onumonu and Goddess Warrior the Poet. Learn more about the event and poets below.
The event will be held in Dionne Victoria Studios, a Black woman owned and operated space on the Southside of Chicago. There will be catering by Taylor’s Tacos, a Black queer and woman owned business.
Please register by June 29 to let CRS know that you will be attending.
Goddess Warrior the Poet
Dianna Tyler aka Goddess Warrior the Poet is a Published Author, 2021 Chicago Music Awards Best Spoken Word Artist of the Year, 2021 National Spoken Word Awards Best Female Poet, 2022 Recipient of the Top 20 Chicagoland Women of Excellence Award Presented to her in March of 2022 By Congressman Danny K. Davis. She is a mother of twin boys, domestic violence survivor and advocate against violence of all kinds.
Tarnynon Onumonu
Tarnynon (Ty-Yuh-Nuh) Onumonu is a writer from the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on Chicago’s Southeast Side. Her work is informed by her West African lineage and diasporic Black femme experiences. In 2017, she took second place in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards and represented Chicago on the Lethal Poetry Team at the 2018 National Poetry Slam. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center since January of 2019 and has been featured in Newcity Magazine, South Side Weekly and the Chicago Reader. Her “Darker Girl Manifesto'' broadside was on exhibition with the Center for Book Arts in the summer of 2021 and in April of 2022, she was commissioned by the environmental justice organization, the NRDC for National Poetry Month 2022. In 2023, she began working as an Assistant Poetry Editor at Another Chicago Magazine and is a new member of the Exhibit B Collective.
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