Poets Simone White and Terrance Hayes in Conversation
Mon, Mar 11, 2019
6:30 PM–8:30 AM
C-level Rooms C201/C202/C203
The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) presents poets Simone White and Terrance Hayes in conversation at the Graduate Center, CUNY. This event is free and open to the public, but to attend, please click here to RSVP. The event takes place in Rooms C-201/202/203 at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the venue is wheel-chair accessible.
Simone White is the author of Dear Angel of Death, Of Being Dispersed, and House of Envy of All the World, and the chapbooks Unrest and Dolly. Recent poems and prose have appeared in e-flux, New York Times Book Review, and Frieze. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
Terrance Hayes is a teacher and student of poetry. His most recent publications include American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin (Penguin 2018) and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018).
Organized by The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.
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