Looking to brush up/catch up on poetry? If so, Just Buffalo Literary Center invites you to participate in a fall virtual poetry event series that features a host of poets who will be reading and discussing on the themes body, health, and healing. This subject matter is very pertinent as the world faces a pandemic… issues of gender equality and identity/expression are pressing topics… and there’s an upcoming presidential election that could lead to a revolution, no matter who wins.
Just Buffalo Literary Center’s fall series of free, virtual poetry events begins this Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. ET with Ilya Kaminsky. The event is the first of a four-week STUDIO poetry series that revolve around body, health, and healing.
Kaminsky is a poet, the author of Deaf Republic, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award. The book imagines a town that falls into silence after a deaf boy is shot and killed, and asks, “what happens when the citizens of a country no longer hear one another?”
Details:
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STUDIO: a virtual reading & conversation with Ilya Kaminsky
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Wednesday, Oct. 28 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET
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ASL interpretation and closed captioning provided
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Register for free and receive the event link at crowdcast.io/justbuffalolit
Full STUDIO series schedule:
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Ilya Kaminsky on Oct. 28
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Dawn Lundy Martin on Nov. 4
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Kazim Ali and Kaveh Akbar on Nov. 11
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Anne Boyer on Nov. 18
For more information, visit justbuffalo.org.