Sisters in Struggle and Song: A Reading and Conversation with Mariposa Fernández, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Patricia Spears Jones
Tue, Apr 20, 2021
7:00 PM–8:30 PM
This event will take place online. Register below. This event will be ASL interpreted.
Join New York-based poets Mariposa Fernandez (Bronx),LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Harlem) and Patricia Spears Jones (Brooklyn) to celebrate the publication of the Library of America’s history-making anthology, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, edited by Kevin Young, and their place within the Black poetic tradition.
This event is free and open to the public and will take place on Zoom. Please register here.
This event will be ASL Interpreted.
This event is part of the series Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of 250 Years of African American Poetry, and is cosponsored by One Book One Bronx; the Leonard Lief Library, the Africana Studies Department, the Women’s Studies Program, and the School of Arts and Humanities at Lehman College, CUNY; Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative and the Center for Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY; and Lift Every Voice.
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