The Return of Mass Shootings in America & Funeral Diva
b'Part 1 \\u2013 The Return of the Mass Shootings\\nGuest: Patrick Blanchfield is a writer and journalist who writes about gun violence, trauma, and masculinity. He is also an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. His book, Gunpower: The Structure of American Violence, will be released by Verso Books this coming winter.\\n\\xa0\\nPart 2 \\u2013 A Pandemic of Two Tales & Funeral Diva\\nGuest: Pamela Sneed is award winning writer, poet, and performer.\\xa0 She is the author of Sweet Dreams,\\xa0Kong, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery, and most lately, Funeral Diva.\\xa0 She is online faculty at Chicago\\u2019s School of the Art Institute teaching Human Rights and Writing Art.\\xa0 Her work is widely anthologized and appears in Nikki Giovanni\\u2019s, The 100 Best African American Poems.\\xa0 She has performed at the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Poetry Project, NYU and Pratt Universities, Smack Mellon Gallery, The High Line, Performa, Danspace, The Bessies, Performance Space, Joe\\u2019s Pub, The Public Theater, SMFA, and BRIC.\\nThe post The Return of Mass Shootings in America & Funeral Diva appeared first on KPFA.'