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A Celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks
November 13, 2017 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$10
Celebrate the centenary of Gwendolyn Brooks with presentations by Elizabeth Alexander, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Marilyn Nelson, Atsuro Riley, Sapphire, Solmaz Sharif and Patricia Smith. Co-sponsored with the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center as part of a year-long, nationwide tribute to one of America’s most influential poets. Purchase tickets here.
Event sponsors: Our Miss Brooks: A Centennial Celebration, the Academy of American Poets, the NYU Creative Writing Program, the Poetry Society of America, Poets House and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL).