I intend to put poetry in
unusual places and spaces.
Aspiring and professional writers as well as all types of creatives and those who need a nurturing space to be artistic can join Founder/Director Catrina Sparkman. In addition, it is a welcoming and safe space for women artists of every ethnicity. Poet Fabu is a professional member of the Creator’s Cottage and serves as a consultant/advisor.
Creator’s Cottage
Traveling framed poetry of selected, original poems in different sizes. It includes a presentation about the poems and invited the audience to enter into poems and experience poetry in a unique manner.
Poet Fabu in Wisconsin
Capitol City Hues and Capitol City Times
Check monthly for an innovation, sometimes controversial, always informative, column published in the Capital City Hues and the Capital Times newsletter. These articles are posted in my blog as well.
The mission of the APP is to improve the quality of life of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia by facilitating creative expression through poetry. During COVID, we took APP to the phones and in 2023 Gary created Poetry on Wheels (POW) to allow older adults who live at home and in facilities, the ability to experience poetry by telephone with professional poets.
The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project
Successful collaboration with Gary Glazner for over a decade with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project. Fabu serves as the Wisconsin director and has worked with African American old adults to bring poetry directly to their homes in person and via phone. Pre-covid, our yearly events ended with a Alzheimer’s Poetry Party that invited participants and the community to hear their original poetry, enjoy food and share in the joy of poetry.
About Hidden Voices
Traveling presentation introducing contemporary writers, Poet Fabu, Catrina Sparkman and Sherry Lucille who present their writings in juxtaposition and legacy to other African Writers from Wisconsin and the USA. Poetry, Fiction, Playwrighting and non-fiction are explored.
Hidden Voices: African American Writer in Wisconsin
Current and Past Hidden Voices Focuses
2024-2025 - Explores Bell Hooks, Wanjiku Mukabi and Monique White writing on behalf of justice to women in Wisconsin and Kenya.
2022 - Writers of Resistance with a focus on Phillis Wheatley, (Poet) Alice Childress (Playwright) and Richard Wright (Novelist and Poet) at 3 libraries in Madison and the Milwaukee Public Library. View More
2017-2018 - Writers with Wisconsin connections Sarah Webster Fabio (Black Arts Poet and UW Lecturer), Lorraine Hansberry, (Playwright and UW student) and Jean Toomer, (Harlem Renaissance Writer and UW student/Wisconsin native) Presented at 14 libraries in Madison and the Milwaukee Public Library.
Related Links
February 2023, WORT highlights Fabu’s new book, We Eat to Remember: Soul Food Poetry
2016, University Place, “Writing Wisconsin Communities”
Kimberly Blaeser, Wisconsin Poet Laureate; Fabu, Third Madison Poet Laureate; Dion Kempthorne, Dean Emeritus at UW-Richland Center; and Timothy Yu, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UW-Madison, discuss how poetry and fiction can shape the future of our communities by engaging diverse populations.
Poet Fabu Carter
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