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Award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib will discuss with Chicago writer, scholar, and community organizer Eve L. Ewing his career as a writer, with a focus on the craft of writing.
Writers on Writing is presented in partnership with StoryStudio Chicago. Perfect for readers and writers alike, these talks celebrate one author’s work—a glimpse behind the creative curtain, a chance to ask questions, and an opportunity to celebrate the art of the written word.
Recent books by both speakers will be available to purchase at the Newberry bookshop, and the authors will sign copies after the talk.
Writers on Writing is generously supported by Shanti Nagarkatti and Sue and Melvin Gray.
Speaker
Hanif Abdurraqib has written six books, including two poetry collections, The Crown Ain't Worth Much and A Fortune for Your Disaster, and four non-fiction collections, They Can't Kill Us until They Kill Us, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, the National Book Award Finalist, A Little Devil in America: Notes In Praise of Black Performance, and the about-to-be-released There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension. His shorter works have appeared in the New York Times and the New Yorker, as well as such journals as Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and Poetry Society of America.
Eve L. Ewing, Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, is a writer, scholar, and community organizer. Her award-winning books include the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, and a novel for young readers, Maya and the Robot. She is currently writing Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, which will be published next fall.
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Registration opens February 1.
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