The Black Matter Is Life: Poetry for Engagement and Overcoming
Join the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire this winter for a virtual series of public conversations entitled "The Black Matter is Life: Poetry for Engagement and Overcoming." In this series, we will explore and discuss the rich tradition and innovation found in African American poetry.
Poetry is a powerful art form, one that offers profound insights into what it means to be human. Through the creative, succinct, and melodious use of language, poets render into words their joys, their challenges, their vulnerabilities, and their discoveries, thus providing shape and meaning to the human connection and shared emotional experience.
At the January 21 conversation, 2020 Poetry winner Jericho Brown will explicate several love poems, including 1950 Poetry winner Gwendolyn Brooks' "Lovely Love," alongside program facilitators Dennis Britton and Reginald A. Wilburn of the University of New Hampshire. Register for the free event (at 5 p.m. EST) here.