Contact information
Name:
Megan Fernandes
Phone:
6109554812
Email:
fernanmk@lafayette.edu
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When:
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Where:
https://lafayette.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUof-yqrDsoH9RYKbfrUiKGVciiNiBL39Lq
Price:
Free
Our reading will begin with the student winners of the 2020 H.MacKnight Black Poetry Competition followed by a reading with our esteemed poetry judge, Terrance Hayes.
Terrance Hayes’s most recent publications include American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin (Penguin 2018) and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018). To Float In The Space Between was winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin was a finalist the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry, the 2018 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry, and the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Hayes is a Professor of English at New York University.
Register here: https://lafayette.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUof-yqrDsoH9RYKbfrUiKGVciiNiBL39Lq
Sponsored by:
Department of English