[Editor's note: This summer, Out in the Bay is airing a mix of previously recorded shows and new content. This week is a rebroadcast.] Pamela Sneed's prose and poetry can reach out and grab you.
They did me. On this week's Out in the Bay radio show and podcast, Sneed reads four poems from her memoir, "Funeral Diva," and shares moments from her life story.
The book, published by San Francisco's City Lights Publishers, is a powerful collection of poems and prose described as a "coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s." In "Funeral Diva," Sneed chronicles her journey as a proud Black lesbian and the impact of the AIDS pandemic on Black queer life, and gives often searing commentary about today's COVID pandemic, divisive politics