Staceyann Chin on Oprah (Nuff Said)

Last week, poet, activist and Bronx Biannual contributor Staceyann Chin appeared on Oprah for an episode on how homosexual activity gets (mis)treated around the world. Staceyann, poet Roger Bonair-Agard (the brother’s no joke) and I were all roomies in a fat bungalow in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, for the Calabash International Literary Festival two years ago. (I won’t even get into the speedboat ride we all took out to the Pelican Bar with Staceyann’s girlfriend, Calabash founder Colin Channer, Amiri Baraka, and his wife Amina.) By the time we met on her native island, I’d already seen her spit fire on Broadway in Def Poetry Jam. While back in NYC for a stretch months later, I caught her one-woman show Border/Clash, and was proud to know and love her all over again.

All that to say: see Staceyann on Oprah, below. Then go read “Walk Amidst the Broken Beds,” her elegy for New Orleans in Bronx Biannual Issue 2.