Remica Bingham-Risher: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-10-2025
Location
Attucks Theatre (1010 Church Street)
Author/Artist Bio
Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006), What We Ask of Flesh/ (Etruscan, 2013), adapted into an immersive dance and installation work by INSPIRIT Dance Company, and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017). Her memoir, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions That Grew Me Up, was published by Beacon Press (2022). Her newest book, Room Swept Home (Wesleyan, 2024) is a finalist for the Library of Virginia Award, was chosen as an Honor Poetry Book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), and won the L.A. Times Book Prize. She is the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, where she resides with her husband and children.
Description
Remica Bingham-Risher's work, "What We Ask of Flesh," is the inspiration for the immersive dance and installation performance created by Christal Brown, her INSPIRIT dance company, and crew of technologists and composers. The performance took place on Friday, October 10, 2025, at 7:00 PM in the Attucks Theatre (1010 Church Street, Norfolk).
Recommended Citation
Bingham-Risher, Remica, "Remica Bingham-Risher: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2025). 48th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 5-10, 2025. 2.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2025/2