Wednesday,
April 30th, 7:00pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store Event
A Reading from
Transition Issue 113: What is Africa to me now?
with contributors
Danielle Legros Georges, David Chariandy, and
Laurence Ralph
and
Transition’s Editors
Vincent Brown, Glenda Carpio,
and Tommie Shelby
Danielle Legros Georges
is a poet, essayist, and translator, and the
author of a book of poems, Maroon (Curbstone Press, 2001). Her work has
appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and been
featured on National Public Radio, The Bill Moyers Journal (PBS), and
The Voice of America programs. Her awards for writing
include MacDowell Colony and LEF fellowships, and the PEN New England
Discovery Award. She is a visiting faculty member of the William Joiner
Center, University of Massachusetts Boston, and leads the Greater
Brockton Society for Poetry and the Arts Poetry
Workshop.
David Chariandy
lives in Vancouver and is an Associate Professor of
Canadian, Caribbean, and African diasporic literatures at Simon Fraser
University. His first novel, entitled Soucouyant, was nominated for
eleven literary prizes and awards, including the two major Canadian
fiction prizes, the Governor General’s Award (finalist)
and the Scotiabank Giller Prize (longlisted). His second novel,
entitled Brother, is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart/Penguin
Random House.
Laurence Ralph is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African American
Studies at Harvard University. He is currently working on an ethnography entitled
Half Dead: The Unexpected Ways We Injure the Urban Poor. The book
explores the networks of commerce, criminality, and affiliation that
congeal in the figure of the disabled gang affiliate.
Transition
Magazine is pleased to be part of
GrubStreet’s Lit Week: a week of fabulous events and parties thrown by Boston's many literary enthusiasts starting
April 26th. Lit Week gives the public a taste of great writing and its possibilities.
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