Valérie Déus is a poet, film programmer and radio show host. Her work has been featured in Minnesota Women’s Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Midway, the St. Paul Almanac, A Garden of Black Joy Anthology and Under Purple Skies: A Minneapolis Anthology her most recent essay is featured in What We Hunger For- Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family edited by Sun Yung Shin published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. When Valérie is not writing, she is the host of Project 35, a local low-fi radio show on KRSM radio and she is the Shorts Programmer for the Provincetown International Film Festival.
Films as a Place for Black Joy
In the lead-up to the launch of the summer film series Hanif Abdurraqib’s Black VHS Experience, poet, essayist, music writer, and MacArthur Genius award recipient Abdurraqib sat down with Valérie Déus to discuss the impact of these films as well as their connections to music and art.
