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Special Event

Event

Poetry as Protest: Dr. Malcolm Tariq

Boston African American National Historic Site

Fee:

Free.

Dates & Times

Date:

Friday, June 19, 2020

Time:

7:00 PM

Duration:

1 hour and 30 minutes

Type of Event

Partner Program
Performance

Description

Please join us for a night of poetry and conversation on Juneteenth with Dr. Malcolm Tariq. Malcolm will read from his stunning debut Heed the Hollow. This event will serve as the inaugural poetry reading in a new series “Poetry As Protest” from the Royall House and Slave Quarters. We are lucky to hold this event in collaboration with the Shaw 54th Memorial Restoration committee that includes partners; Museum of African American History, Boston African American National Historical Site, Boston National Historical Park, Friends of the Public Garden, and the City of Boston.

This event will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube afterwards.

For more information visit: https://royallhouse.org and https://friendsofthepublicgarden.org/shaw54th/

About the Author: Malcolm Tariq is a poet and playwright from Savannah, Georgia. He is the author of Heed the Hollow, winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and is a 2020-2021 playwright resident with the Liberation Theatre Company. A graduate of Emory University, he has a PhD in English from the University of Michigan. Malcolm lives in Brooklyn, where he is the Programs and Communications Manager for the Cave Canem Foundation, a home for Black poetry. 
 
About the Interlocutor: Camara Brown is a published poet and a
Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Harvard University, where she writes about poetry, care, gender, sexuality, Black feminisms, and Transnational women of color feminisms. Her interdisciplinary study draws methods and reading practices from both history and literary studies to ask directly: what can historians learn about doing history from poetry? 

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Contact Information

The Royall House
(781) 396-9032
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