Poetics: A RaceB4Race Symposium

January 27, 2023 - January 28, 2023
ASU Tempe Campus Old Main

Event Summary

Poetics: A RaceB4Race Symposium will invite scholars and poets to examine the ways race can, should, and/or does function within poetic paradigms. Along with one of our distinguished speakers, Fred Moten, we ponder “the question of how we can read the poem is redoubled now. now, how can we read this poem?”

Invited Speakers:

  • Brandi K. Adams (Arizona State University)
  • Tanvir Ahmed (Austrian Academy of Science)
  • Suzanne Coley (Independent artist)
  • Reginald Jackson (University of Michigan)
  • Promise Li (Princeton University)
  • Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky)
  • Susie Phillips (Northwestern University)
  • Debapriya Sarkar (University of Connecticut)
  • Reginald Wilburn (University of New Hampshire)

Visit ASU’s event website to register and purchase tickets.

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