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SUMMARY:Author Rob Franklin in Conversation with Acclaimed Poet and Essayist Hanif Abdurraqib
DESCRIPTION:Join writer and scholar Rob Franklin for his gripping and elegant debut\, Great Black Hope\, about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class\, glamour and tragedy. Franklin will be in conversation with acclaimed poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib. \nRegistration is on Eventbrite. The pre-purchase of Great Black Hope while registering waives the $10 registration fee. \nKING ARTS COMPLEX is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this program. \nAn arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith\, a queer Black Stanford graduate\, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment\, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him\, but his race does not. \nIt’s just weeks after the death of his beloved roommate Elle\, the daughter of a famous soul singer\, and he’s still reeling from the tabloid spectacle—as well as lingering questions around how well he really knew his closest friend. He flees to his hometown of Atlanta\, only to buckle under the weight of expectations from his family of doctors and lawyers and their history in America. But when Smith returns to New York\, it’s not long before he begins to lose himself to his old life—drawn back into the city’s underworld\, where his search for answers may end up costing him his freedom and his future. \nSmith goes on a dizzying journey through the nightlife circuit\, anonymous recovery rooms\, Atlanta’s Black society set\, police investigations and courtroom dramas\, and a circle of friends coming of age in a new era. Great Black Hope is a propulsive\, glittering story about what it means to exist between worlds\, to be upwardly mobile yet spiraling downward\, and how to find a way back to hope.  \nBorn and raised in Atlanta\, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction and poetry\, and a cofounder of Art for Black Lives. A Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award\, he has published work in New England Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Rumpus among others. Franklin lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and teaches writing at the School of Visual Arts. Great Black Hope is his first novel.  \nHanif Abdurraqib is a nationally acclaimed poet\, essayist\, and cultural critic from Columbus\, Ohio. His most recent book of essays\, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance\, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. He is the author of two poetry collections\, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much and A Fortune for Your Disaster. His first collection of essays\, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us\, was named a book of the year by NPR\, Esquire\, BuzzFeed\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Pitchfork\, and Chicago Tribune\, among others. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist and was longlisted for the National Book Award. In 2021\, he was named a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow.
URL:https://kingartscomplex.com/event/author-rob-franklin-in-conversation-with-acclaimed-poet-and-essayist-hanif-abdurraqib/
LOCATION:The King Arts Complex\, 835 Mount Vernon Avenue\, Columbus\, OH\, 43203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bestselling Authors of THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN\, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray Launch New Novel
DESCRIPTION:Join New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian—Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray—as they launch The First Ladies\, a novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world.
URL:https://kingartscomplex.com/event/bestselling-authors-of-the-personal-librarian-marie-benedict-and-victoria-christopher-murray-launch-new-novel/
LOCATION:The King Arts Complex\, 835 Mount Vernon Avenue\, Columbus\, OH\, 43203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night with Acclaimed Writer Saeed Jones! In Conversation with Poet and Scholar Marcus Jackson!
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives\, Saeed Jones as he shares his latest book\, Alive at the End of the World. Pierced by grief and charged with history\, this new poetry collection confronts our everyday apocalypses. Jones will be in conversation with fellow poet Marcus Jackson. \nRegistration for this free program is on Eventbrite. \nKING ARTS COMPLEX\, OHIO POETRY ASSOCIATION\, and OHIO STATE’S CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM are Gramercy’s Community Partners for this poetry program.  \nIn haunted poems glinting with laughter\, Jones explores the public and private betrayals of life as we know it. With verve\, wit\, and elegant craft\, he strips away American artifice in order to reveal the intimate grief of a mourning son and the collective grief bearing down on all of us. \nDrawing from memoir\, fiction\, and persona\, Jones confronts the everyday perils of white supremacy with a finely tuned poetic ear\, identifying moments that seem routine even as they open chasms of hurt. Viewing himself as an unreliable narrator\, Jones looks outward to understand what’s within\, bringing forth cultural icons like Little Richard\, Paul Mooney\, Aretha Franklin and Diahann Carroll to illuminate how long and how perilously we’ve been living on top of fault lines. As these poems seek ways to love and survive through America’s existential threats\, Jones ushers his readers toward the realization that the end of the world is already here–and the apocalypse is a state of being. \nSaeed Jones was born in Memphis\, Tennessee\, and grew up in Lewisville\, Texas. His work has appeared in the New Yorker\, New York Times\, and GQ\, and he has been featured on public radio programs including NPR’s Fresh Air\, Pop Culture Happy Hour\, It’s Been A Minute with Sam Sanders\, and All Things Considered. He lives in Columbus\, Ohio\, with his dog\, Caesar\, and tweets @TheFerocity. \nMarcus Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry: Neighborhood Register (2011) and Pardon My Heart (2018). His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times Magazine\, among other publications. A Cave Canem fellow\, Jackson is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Ohio State University and teaches in the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte. He lives in Columbus with his wife and daughter. \nPURCHASE TICKETS \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlive at the End of the World (Paperback)\n\nBy Saeed Jones\, D. a. Powell (Foreword by)\n$16.95
URL:https://kingartscomplex.com/event/poetry-night-with-acclaimed-writer-saeed-jones-in-conversation-with-poet-and-scholar-marcus-jackson/
LOCATION:Gramercy Books\, 2424 East Main Street\, Bexley\, OH\, 43209\, United States
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