CONVERSATION/Q&A HUXLEY THEATRE/NYS MUSEUM Mahogany Browne is one of the leading poet-activists of the New York City arts scene. Ploughshares declared that “Browne has become her own revolution”—an artist committed in word and deed to changing the world. Both educator and organizer, she is curator of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Friday Night Slam, publisher of Penmanship Books, founder of the Women Writers of Color Reading Room, director of Black Lives Matter at Pratt Institute, and artistic director at Urban Word NYC.