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Poetry Reading: Vievee Francis Reads from The Shared World

Poetry Reading: Vievee Francis Reads from The Shared World In-Person / Online

Join us for a poetry reading with Vievee Francis, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth, followed by a Q&A session moderated by Rena Mosteirin, proprieter of Left Bank Bookstore and Lecturer at Dartmouth.

The Shared World imagines the ideas and ideals and spaces of the Black woman. The book delves into inherited memories and restrictions between families, lovers, and strangers and the perception and inconvenient truth of Black woman as mother—with or without child. Francis challenges the ways in which Black women are often dismissed while expected to be nurturing. This raw assemblage of poetic narratives stares down the oppressors from within and writes a new language in the art of taking back the body and the memory. These poetic narratives are brutal in their lyrical blows but tender with the bruised history left behind. “You can't stop this / song," she writes. “More hands than yours have closed / around my throat."

VIEVEE FRANCIS is the author of three previous books of poetry: BlueTail FlyHorse in the Dark: Poems, winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for a second collection; and Forest Primeval: Poems (TriQuarterly), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In 2009 she received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and in 2010 a Kresge Fellowship. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College and serves as an associate editor of Callaloo.

This program will be held in the Mayer Room and also on Zoom.  For more information email Jared Jenisch at jared.jenisch@thehowe.org.

 

Rena Mosteirin is an editor at Bloodroot Literary Magazine, teaches creative writing workshops at Dartmouth College and owns Left Bank Books, a used bookstore in Hanover, just over the Dirt Cowboy Cafe. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned her MFA at the Bennington Writing Seminars.  Her website can be found at http://www.renajmosteirin.com/.

Date:
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Mayer Room
Online:
This is an online event.
Event URL:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvce2vrjMrHN0HKzs4F3Et6TxdQHCJXyc_
Categories:
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