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Author: Keno Evol Keno Evol

Keno Evol is the Executive Director of Black Table Arts. Keno Evol is editor of A Garden Of Black Joy: Global Poetry From The Edges of Liberation And Living. At his core he is a facilitator of empathy and imagination.

Black Table Arts is a community driven arts cooperative located in Minneapolis, Minnesota gathering black communities through the arts toward better black futures. Complete with a bookstore, shared workspace and a performance space (BTA) makes bold the connection between art and grassroots organizing by providing programs that invite local artists to see themselves as change makers and organizers of their collective liberation.

Keno Evol’s work hones in on the literary arts and the black radical tradition as curriculum for the future. Evol has received the Verve Grant, the Beyond the Pure fellowship, The Emerging Writers Grant and The Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for his work.

Clouds of smoke in front of a row of protesters' umbrellas, and a sign reading BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Literature Visual Art
4-19-2021

Daunte Wright: A Billion Clusters of Rebellion and Starlight

Keno Evol
An intersection with a memorial for George Floyd at the center that has a large sculpture of a fist in the air. Signs and flowers are arranged in a circle around the memorial, and people can seen standing on the outside looking in
1"Memorial for George Floyd - 38th and Chicago Avenue - South Minneapolis" by Tony Webster is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Literature Visual Art
1-15-2021

Poly-fugitivity: Utopian Relations in Dystopian Structures

Keno Evol
george-floyd_MNartists
1Artwork by the author.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
5-29-2020

George Floyd & What black utopian thinking can offer us

Keno Evol
1Photo Credit: Uiphotographic.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
10-19-2018

Black Convivial: On Blackmospheres and Sci-fi Social Work

Keno Evol
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