Poet, author Prosperity Carter at Black Expo Tampa, Florida

BAM Baby Prosperity Carter will speak and perform her poetry at the Tampa, Florida Black Expo this weekend. She will read from her forthcoming book How to Get Off the Shelf Collecting Dust! This is a semi-autobiographical narrative of  growing up as a sexual trauma and parental violence victim and later a partner violence survivor.  The book is not sad but motivational and inspirational. Originally from Queens, New York, she is presently a student at a Tampa community college. She has received a scholarship to spend 30 days at the University of Ghana, West Africa. Ms Carter is associate editor of the Black Arts Movement newspaper, The Movement, published by her mentor, BAM co-founder Marvin X. While in Ghana, she will contribute stories to The Movement as well as the Post News Group in Oakland, California.
She will be hosted by Muhammida El Muhajir, the Movement's Pan Africa Editor, who lives in Accra, Ghana.