Nurturing the Compassionate Community: An Evening to Honor the Legacy of Lucille Clifton, Feb. 28

Mon, Feb 28 2022, 7:30 - 8:45pm
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Nurturing the Compassionate Community: An Evening to Honor the Legacy of Lucille Clifton, featuring Carolyn Forché and Raymond Antrobus

Carolyn Forché’s first volume, "Gathering the Tribes," winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by "The Country Between Us," "The Angel of History," and "Blue Hour." Her most recent collection is "In the Lateness of the World." She is also the author of the memoir "What You Have Heard Is True" (Penguin Random House, 2019), a lyrical and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others, which was nominated for the 2019 National Book Awards. She has translated Mahmoud Darwish, Claribel Alegria, and Robert Desnos. Her famed international anthology, "Against Forgetting," has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” In 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture.

Raymond Antrobus is the author, most recently, of "All the Names Given" (Tin House, 2021), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Costa Poetry Award. His debut collection, "The Perseverance" (Tin House, 2021), won the Ted Hughes Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, among others. Born in London, Raymond is currently based between London and New Orleans.

 

You are invited to a Zoom webinar. 
When: Feb 28, 2022 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 
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Jeffrey Coleman
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