Event Summary

The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites you to an evening with Fred Moten and Jericho Brown in conversation with Ayanna Thompson.

Fred Moten is a cultural theorist and poet creating new conceptual spaces that accommodate emergent forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics, and social life. He is developing a new mode of aesthetic inquiry wherein the conditions of being Black play a central role.

Jericho Brown is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta, the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the recipient of noteworthy fellowships and author of widely published works.

This dialogue is the keynote event for Poetics: A RaceB4Race Symposium.

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