Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones, Marci Blackman, Sarah Gambito, D. Nurkse, Bushra Rehman, Yolanda Wisher

Thursday April 21, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL

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Join us for a night celebrating poetry and Quincy Scott Jones’ new-ish book How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children, a meditation on racial violence and the prospect of raising Black and Brown children in a world that doesn’t care for Black or Brown (or children).

Quincy Scott Jones is the author of two books of poetry: The T-Bone Series (Whirlwind Press, 2009) and How to KillYourself Instead of Your Children (C&R Press, 2021). His work has appeared in the African American Review, The North American Review, the Bellingham Review, Love Jawns: A Mixtape, and The Feminist Wire. With Nina Sharma he co-curates Blackshop, a column that thinks about allyship between BIPOC artist. His graphic narrative, >BlackNerd<, is in the works.

Marci Blackman is the author of the novels, PO MAN’S CHILD, recipient of the ALA’s Stonewall Award for Best Fiction, and TRADITION, noted in Band of Thebes as one of the Best LGBTQ Books of the year. Blackman’s third novel, ELEPHANT, is forthcoming.

Sarah Gambito is Professor of English / Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University and co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving writers and readers of Asian American literature.

D. Nurkse is the author of twelve poetry collections, most recently A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS, just out from Knopf. A former Brooklyn poet laureate, he taught poetry at Rikers Island and served on the board of Amnesty International-USA. He currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Bushra Rehman is a writer and cultural activist, author of Corona, a dark comedy about being Muslim and her collection of poems, Marianna’s Beauty Salon. She is creator of the community-based writing workshop Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction.

Poet, singer, educator, and curator Yolanda Wisher is author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the anthology Peace is a Haiku Song. Wisher was named Poet Laureate of Montgomery County and third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award, works as Curator of Spoken Word and Co-Director of Curatorial Programs at Philadelphia Contemporary. She performs a blend of poetry and song with her band Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters.