The award-winning Black feminist music critic Daphne Brooks takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé. She is joined by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the U.S., Tracy K. Smith for a wide-ranging discussion of both acclaimed Black women musicians and overlooked Black feminist cultural workers […]
C.K. Williams Reading by Franny Choi EVENT OVERVIEW DATES: April 7, 2021 HOURS: 6-7 PM (EDT) LOCATION: Online ADMISSION: FREE and open to public Poet and writer Franny Choi reads from her work along with senior students in the Program in Creative Writing. The C.K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of the late Pulitzer […]
Intersections Working Group presents Ren Ellis Neyra & Julie Beth Napolin Date: 04/13/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: virtual - requires registration Speakers: Ren Ellis Neyra, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English Department, Wesleyan University and Julie Beth Naplin, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Digital Humanities, The New School. A discussion of The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and […]
Richard Blanco is the fifth presidential inaugural poet in United States history — the first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity and place characterize his body of work. He is the author of the poetry collections Looking […]
Spring 2021 Student Reading EVENT OVERVIEW DATES: April 20, 2021 HOURS: 5 PM (ET) LOCATION: Online ADMISSION: FREE and open to public Selected students from spring 2021 courses in Creative Writing read from their work in fiction, poetry, screenwriting and literary translation as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series presented by the […]