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Celebrating the Chicago Quarterly Review's Anthology of Black American Literature

Virtual
Thursday, March 24, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am

 

Join the Chicago Quarterly Review for a celebration of its Anthology of Black American Literature, guest-edited by National Book Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Charles Johnson. This reading showcases the breadth of voices that have been brought together in this remarkable issue as well as the Chicago Quarterly Review's commitment to special editions, the fifth in its history. Interspersed with questions and commentary, five contributors of prose and poetry read from their included work.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Celebrating_the_Chicago_Quarterly_Review_Anthology_of_Black_American_Literature.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Cyrus Cassells is the current poet laureate of Texas. His eighth book is The World That the Shooter Left Us (Four Way Books, February 2022). Among his several honors: a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Lambda Literary Award, two NEA grants, and an NAACP Image Award finalist nomination.

E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary activist. He was inducted into the Washington, DC Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2016 he received the AWP George Garrett Award For Outstanding Community Service in Literature. When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery is his most recent book.

Mona Lisa Saloy, PhD, folklorist and professor of English at Dillard University, is author of Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems and Red Beans & Ricely Yours. Other work appears in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, Children’s Folklore Review, and Forward to Night Sessions.

Steven Barnes is the New York Times Bestselling author of over thirty novels of science fiction, suspense, and adventure. In addition he writes for television shows such as Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, and Andromeda

E. Hughes is a PhD student in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her MFA and MA from the Litowitz Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University.

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