Juneteenth: Pairing Art with Food and Poetry

In this episode of Pairing Art with Food, we celebrate Juneteenth and talk with poets Just Duléa and L. Renée.
Just Duléa is a poet and spoken word artist from New York, NY. She has been a writer for 10+ years and is the Founder and CEO of Conviction 2 Change Publishing LLC, a publishing company that seeks to tell those stories traditionally found on the margins. Her work prioritizes the themes of blackness and African-centered thought, gender, sexuality, and spirituality. Just Duléa holds a BBA from the University of Miami, an MFA from San Francisco State University, and is currently a third-year doctoral student in the African American & African Diaspora Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington.
L. Renée is a poet and nonfiction writer from Columbus, Ohio. She is a third-year MFA candidate at Indiana University, where she has served as Nonfiction Editor of Indiana Reviewand Associate Director of the Indiana University Writers’ Conference. Her work, nominated for Best New Poets and a Pushcart Prize, has been anthologized in Women of Appalachia Project’s Women Speak: Volume 6. She is the recipient of the Indiana University Guy Lemmon Award in Public Writing, Appalachian Review’s Denny C. Plattner Award, and second place winner of the Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize from PLUCK! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture andNew Limestone Review. Her poems have been published or forthcoming in Tin House Online, Obsidian, Poet Lore, the minnesota review, Southern Humanities Review, Sheila-na-gig Online, and elsewhere. She has received support from Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Sundress Academy for the Arts. L. Renée believes in Black joy, which she occasionally expresses on Instagram @lreneepoems