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Past Center Events
February 15, 2019 - 5:30pm
Ross Gay & Saretta Morgan: Readings
Reading featuring Ross Gay and text-based artist Saretta Morgan. Read more »January 24, 2019 - 7:00pm
An Evening with Terrance Hayes and Rickey Laurentiis
Reading and Q&A with Rickey Laurentiis and Terrance Hayes. Read more »November 14, 2018 - 12:00am to November 15, 2018 - 12:00am
Reading and Conversation with Tracy K. Smith
Q&A with Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Tracy K. Smith Read more »
June 16, 2018 - 6:30pm
Because Blackness Like Poetry Means Many Things: Celebrating Cave Canem
“Blackness like poetry means many things,” Terrance Hayes said at the National Book Awards in 2016, when Cave Canem won the NBA’s Literarian Award. Founded in 1996 by poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady to “remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape,” Cave Canem has grown to become one of the most influential poetry organizations in the world. Join us for performances by four of Cave Canem's 400+ fellows—Samiya Bashir, Eisa Davis, Ruth Ellen Kocher, and avery r. young. Co-sponsored by the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater. Read more »May 18, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Gallery Conversation: Black Representation in ‘Deana Lawson’
Read more »May 17, 2018 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
From Body to Flesh: Intersections of poetry, visual art and dance with the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics
An interactive workshop at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Read more »March 1, 2018 - 7:30pm
Black Futures: Carl Phillips and Laylah Ali | A Reading, Lecture, and Conversation
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