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VIRTUAL EVENT: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane) Launch event – Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY)

Please note: all our virtual events are listed in Eastern time. Celebrate the release of New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane) with a virtual event featuring series co-editors Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani and contributing poets. This virtual event requires registration to attend; please visit this Eventbrite link to reserve your space.

VIRTUAL EVENT: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba) — Center for Fiction

Editors Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes present New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba) with contributors Nkateko Masinga, Jamila Osman, Safia Jama, Sadia Hassan, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Nadra Mabrouk, Tryphena Yeboah, Adedayo Agarau, and Fatima Camara; hosted by the Center for Fiction with Poets House. RSVP/details: https://centerforfiction.org/event/the-new-gen-rising-african-poets-with-kwame-dawes-chris-abani/. PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are […]

Kwame Dawes — Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL

Kwame Dawes on Bivouac, in conversation with Akashic Books publisher Johnny Temple. In Kwame Dawes’s novel, Bivouac, a man’s grief over the death of his father is exacerbated by the conflict over whether the death was the result of medical negligence or if it was a political assassination.