We are pleased to host a Court Space reading with poet and filmmaker Jeanetta Rich at Torpedo!

Based in Los Angeles and originally from the South Side of Chicago, Jeanetta Rich´s work elegantly reveals the grit of womanhood. She is focused on reimagining beauty, romance and what it means to surrender to one’s own vulnerability.

In 2021 she debuted with a poetry collection titled «Black Venus Fly Trap» which invites readers to grapple with the origins of a world that both hates and needs Black women.

«A disruptive hagiography of the Black Venus & Sapphire, mammy bulldaggers, and welfare queens, Rich’s collection splendidly desecrates poetic elitism. Black Venus Fly Trap is an eldritch account of Black femininity simultaneously born from the chorus of refusal and unlike anything written before”.

Published by Deluge Books

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