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Available Now at Amazon Books
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By Third World Press/McBride-Ahebee's Poetry is included in this very needed anthology.

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Octavia McBride-Ahébée Assuming Voices

Available at Robin's Bookstore
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www.robinsbookstore.com

     Octavia McBride-Ahebee's poetry is included in Poetry Ink; The Tenth Anniversary Anthology recently published by Plan B Press and is the grand project of Larry Robin and Moonstone.  Included in this collection is the work of Amira Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Rita Dove, Dennis Brutus, Lamont Steptoe, Ursula Rucker, Elizabeth Alexander, Major Jackson, Haki Madhubuti, Toi Derricote, Daniel Hoffman and Cornelius Eady and more than 100 other wonderfully gifted writers.

       Poetry Ink; The Tenth Anniversary Anthology is available at Robin’s Bookstore, 108 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. The phone number is 215-735-9600. For online orders, go to www.robinsbookstore.com  .

 

    

Under Our Skin: Literature of Breast Cancer
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A Literary Anthology Exploring the Multifaceted Experience of Breast Cancer

    Under Our Skin; Literature of Breast Cancer
           More than a collection of fiction, poetry,
      creative nonfiction and photography, this anthology
      seeks to educate and provoke-to get Under Our Skin.
      Octavia McBride-Ahebee is included in this collection
      of prize-winnning writers from the U.S. and abroad.
     Click on the book cover to learn more about
     Under Our Skin: Literature of Breast Cancer.
                    

Assuming Voices
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Click on book cover to learn what's happening at Philadelphia's Oldest Independent Bookstore-Robin's

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South Africa 1981, Eugene Steele

McBride-Ahebee's poetry  collection, Assuming Voices,gives voice to women who historically have not been heard; African women, women in refugee camps, women who are victims of civil war, women who are new immigrants and isolated,rural women who face such health challenges as breast cancer and obstetric fistula.
Assuming Voices is available at Robin's Bookstore. Click on cover for contact
information.

Check out Sea Breeze:The Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writings where some of my poetry has been featured. What makes this journal singular is the caliber of the writers and their ideas! Just click on this text to read what I mean.

Please check out Lisa Russell's film-Love,Labor,Loss-a film about obstetric fistula. This issue symbolizes the lack of prioritizations of women’s rights to health and safe motherhood. Simply click on this link.  http://imaginingourselves.imow.org/pb/Story.aspx?id=97&lang=1

  

         

When you say a prayer for the world,
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remember Cote d'Ivoire! Click on Map and learn what's happening in Africa.

Fountainhead;Philadelphia, 1970
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George Krause

   Octavia McBride-Ahebee is available to conduct poetry workshops for young students.  Her  various poetry workshops-Songs of Myself; Celebrating Our Lives Through the Word-cover a range of topics:
 
-The Immigrant Experience in Poetry
 
-The Poetry of the African Diaspora
 
- African-American Women Poets;
From the Colonial Era to the Hip-Hop Generation
 
- Exploring America Through Poetry
 
- The Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
 
Contact Octavia McBride-Ahebee at obmcbride@verizon.net
 
 

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