Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Latinx Poetry Now: A Reading and Conversation with J. Michael Martinez + aracelis girmay Thursday Sept 28, 2023 11am - 12:30pm Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Join the Arts Research Center for our first Poetry & the Senses reading of fall 2023, featuring the incredible poets and multimedia artists J. Michael Martin and aracelis girmay. Following their readings, they will be in conversation with Prof John Alba Cutler (English).

J. Michael Martinez is a multimedia artist and the author of three collections of poetry, including Heredities, which received the Walt...

Echoes from the Borderlands with Valeria Luiselli, Leo Heiblum,and Ricardo Giraldo
Artists November 30, 2023 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

This event was hosted by BCNM. You can find the original event page on their website here.

Claudia Rankine & Pamela Sneed November 8, 2023 6 p.m. Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

In Citizen. An American Lyric, poet, playwright and MacArthur fellow Claudia Rankine writes: “This would be your fatal flaw–your memory, vessel of feelings …” The accumulation of everyday violence and racism forms heavy memories that make it difficult to imagine a present and future different from the past.

In Funeral Diva, poet and visual artist Pamela Sneed laments surviving the AIDS crisis in NYC as a Black lesbian. While grieving the friends she lost, Sneed also...

California Laureate Lee Herrick, Hawaiian Laureate Kealoha & Oakland Youth Laureate Nadia Elbgal Thursday, April 20, 2023 5:00 – 6:30pm PDT
Durham Studio Theater, Dwinelle Hall (map here)

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