[Yale-readings] M. NourbeSe Philp - April 17 at 11am HQ 136

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Please join us for the upcoming reading and q&a by M. NourbeSe Philip on Friday, April 17 at 11am in HQ 136.

Born in Tobago, m. nourbeSe philip is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist and playwright who lives in the space-time of Toronto. A former lawyer, her published works include the award-winning YA novel, Harriet’s Daughter, the seminal poetry collection, She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks, the speculative prose poem, Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, as well as her genre-breaking book-length epic, Zong! As told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng. She has written several collections of essays including Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture and A Genealogy of Resistance; her most recent collection is Blank. philip is a fellow of both the Guggenheim and Rockefeller (Bellagio) Foundations and in 2020 was the recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In 2021, she was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize by the Canada Council for her outstanding achievement in the arts. In 2023 she was the Bain-Swiggett Chair in Poetry at Princeton for the Spring semester. In 2024, she became a recipient of the Windham Campbell Award for Poetry.

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