Events for February 23, 2017
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4:00 pm
TRACY K. SMITH Reading at Emerson
The Emerson College WLP Reading Series is pleased to present a Q&A and reading with TRACY K. SMITH, author of four acclaimed books: The Body's Question (2003), which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African-American poet; Duende (2007), winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Essense Literary Award; Life on Mars (2011), which won the 2012 Pulitzer […]
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African American Poetry and Blackness in the 21st Century
The Boston Public Library hosts The Living Archive: African American Poetry in this exploration of Black identity articulated by contemporary African American poets. The panel (and audience) discussions with poets and writers will explore the significance of African American literature, the ways in which literature has examined and illuminated Black identities, the connection between spoken and written […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.