[Yale-readings] Poetry Reading-Martha Collins: Wed. Nov. 9, 5:30, 401 HGS

[Kuhl, Nancy]

American Studies, Public Humanities, English, and Ethnicity, Race and Migration present:

Blue Front


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A Poetry Reading with Martha Collins

Wednesday, November 9, 5:30 in HGS 401



Collins's fifth volume and first book-length poem concerns a horrifying lynching in her father's hometown. In Cairo, Ill., in 1909, two men (one black, one white) suspected of rape were murdered by a crowd; local newspapers celebrated the event. In sometimes narrative, sometimes impressionistic modes, Collins moves out from Cairo ("the most southern point in all the North") to the sad history of race relations in southern Illinois and throughout America since the Civil War. Snippets from letters, postcards, statistics, eyewitness reports and other documents mingle with Collins's own appalled voice to create a work that mixes resolve with horror.

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