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Little Girl Blue: A Reading with Sequoia Maner

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
OCL Virtual
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Lecture
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Lindsay Reckson
Department
English Faculty
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https://ems-web.haverford.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=94068

Little Girl Blue: Poems is a collection of elegiac poems that conjures a tapestry of Black voices from history, the victims and the heroes who have helped us see ourselves and the world more truthfully. In these poems, we are not only called to witness injustice, but to hold space for what blooms from it: a confrontation full of exile and longing, an unshakable sense of joy that defies even death. 

Sequoia Maner is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Spelman College. She is a co-editor of the critical-creative book Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2020) and at work on a forthcoming book regarding Kendrick Lamar's album To Pimp a Butterfly for the 33 1/3 series (Bloomsbury). Her writing has been published in Auburn Avenue, The Feminist Wire, Meridians, Obsidian, The Langston Hughes Review, and other venues.

Sponsored by the Distinguished Visitors Program, the Department of English Weaver Fund, and the Creative Writing Program. 

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