On
Monday, March 13 at 7:30 pm, O.B. Hardison Poetry and PEN/Faulkner combine forces to showcase the influence of comic books on literature. Novelist
Manuel Gonzales and poets
Yona Harvey and
Gary Jackson will read from their work and participate in a post-reading conversation moderated by poet
Dr. Tara Betts, Visiting Lecturer at University of Illinois-Chicago. Using handwritten poems and passages, the artists of
Ink Brick, a micro-press for comic book poetry, have created a one-of-a-kind comic book broadside, free to audience members, to celebrate this event.
The reading is followed by a complimentary wine reception, with an opportunity to purchase books and to speak with the authors while having your book signed. Come and join us for a wonderful evening.
Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife and Other Stories, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Prize for Fiction, and the novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! He teaches creative writing for the University of Kentucky and the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Yona Harvey is the author of
Hemming the Water, which won the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and is a co-author of the Marvel Comics series
Black Panther: World of Wakanda. She has just been announced as an author of the upcoming
Black Panther & The Crew series for Marvel Comics, which will make her the first black woman to write Marvel's
Storm character.
Gary Jackson is the author of
Missing You, Metropolis which was selected by
Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He is an assistant professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
For more information on the
O.B. Hardison Poetry Series – including our line-up of poets for the spring and to purchase single tickets, please visit
www.folger.edu/poetry or call our box office at
202.544.7077.
We hope to see you in the coming weeks!
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