Saturday, 11/18, 4pm: Reframing the Portrait of the Poet: a Reading & Conversation with Maghoney L. Browne, Chen Chen, Marilyn Chin, & Sam Sax.
Room 8303 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States
MAHOGANY L. BROWNE’s Chrome Valley: Poems offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America, capturing the pleasures and pangs of young love and motherhood, and reveling in the beauty of the undaunted self-determination passed down from Black woman to Black woman. The poems in CHEN CHEN’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency: Poems a acknowledge and name the persistent threat of violence, while also reminding its reader of joys both small and large: West Texas sunsets, a lover’s body, family both blood and chosen. MARILYN CHINis always reinventing herself. In Sage: Poems, she mixes Chinese poems with hip-hop rhymes, pulls farcical details from an old diary, and confronts the disturbing rise in violence against Asian Americans. PIG: Poems by SAM SAX interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble creature – farm animal, men/masculinity, police and state violence, desire, queerness, global food systems, religion/Judaism, and law – to reimagine various chaotic histories of the body, faith, ecology, desire, hygiene, and power.