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A Splendid Wake 6

Location Gelman Library, George Washington University, 2130 H St., NW, Washington, DC
Date Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Duration   1 hours, 30 minutes
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Details Join Master of Ceremonies Henry Crawford for a Splendid Wake 6, featuring Abdul Ali (remembering Dolores Kendrick); Kim Roberts (on DC Jazz Age writers, including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and others); A.B. Spellman (on poetry and jazz in the work of performance poets during the Black Arts Movement); Truth Thomas (on the power of poetic brevity and the fixed-form framework of The Skinny); and Maritza Rivera (on her invention of Blackjack Poetry). For more information, contact Joanna Howard at [email protected].

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