Event Details
Roger Reeves.
Event Details
Join National Book Award–honored authors Darcie Little Badger (A Snake Falls to Earth, 2021 Young People’s Literature Longlister), Roger Reeves (Best Barbarian, 2022 Poetry Finalist), and Marytza K. Rubio (Maria, Maria, 2022 Fiction Longlister) for readings and conversation on stories based in and outside of Texas, real and fantastical.
Moderated by Tomás Q. Morín, author of Machete and associate professor at Rice University.
Presented in partnership with Sam Houston State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm CDT
Location
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas
Event Details
Event Details
National Book Award Winners Nikky Finney (Head Off & Split, 2011 Poetry Winner) and Robin Coste Lewis (Voyage of the Sable Venus, 2015 Poetry Winner) excavate and reimagine family and historical archives as poetry in their recent books Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry and To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness.
The authors join National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming, 2014 Young People’s Literature Winner) in conversation on the care of community archival work and the power of Black stories amidst continued book banning.
Presented in partnership with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
This is an official 2023 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event.
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm EDT
