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Camonghne Felix and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram in Conversation at Brookline Booksmith

July 24, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Free

Camonghne Felix’s Build Yourself a Boat is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after; a view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. Award-winning poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram share’s her most recent collection, How Narrow My Escapes. »

Camonghne Felix, M.A. is a poet, political strategist, media junkie and cultural worker. She received an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, and has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo and Poets House. The 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee is the author of the chapbook Yolk, and was recently listed by Black Youth Project as a “Black Girl From the Future You Should Know.”

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s first book, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Benjamin Saltman Award. She is also author of a slice from the cake made of air and a chapbook, cutthroat glamours. She holds degrees in creative writing from the University of Utah, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Carnegie Mellon University, and is now assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts – Boston.

Details

Date:
July 24, 2019
Time:
7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/events/2019-07/camonghne-felix-and-lillian-yvonne-bertram/

Venue

Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
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Phone:
(617) 566-6660
Website:
https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.