“Poetry in its best lived practice is a radically democratic form, and really believes in the notion that regardless of who you are and where you come from, you have something to say,” says Kevin Coval, founder of Louder than a Bomb.
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Louder than a Bomb, “the largest youth poetry festival in the world,” will celebrate its 21st anniversary when it arrives in a virtual version March 13-April 24.
The annual event, courtesy of Young Chicago Authors, will feature more than 500 youth poets (ages 12 to 18) from schools and community groups throughout the Chicago area in a five-week, tournament-style competition of original solo and group spoken-word poems, as well as workshops and more.
7 Chicago artists are picked for $50,000 grants
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The Wabash College Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies (MXIBS) presents speaker Nate Marshall, whose virtual talk will highlight a day commemorating the life and leadership of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Marshall’s virtual talk will take place at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 18.
Register here in advance for this program by Saturday, Jan. 16.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the meeting.
Marshall is a writer, rapper, and educator from the South Side of Chicago. He is the author of
FINNA (One World, Penguin Random House, 2020),
Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), winner of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association’s New Writer Award.
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CRAWFORDSVILLE, Indiana The Wabash College Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies (MXIBS) presents speaker Nate Marshall, whose virtual talk will highlight a day commemorating the life and leadership of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Marshall’s virtual talk will take place at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 18.
Register in advance for this program by noon on Friday, Jan. 16 at https://wabash.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlcuigqT8sGdCNqVuN4xr-GcmfYgsgM6s0 After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the meeting.
Marshall is a writer, rapper, and educator from the South Side of Chicago. He is the author of
Natasha Gilmore, Idlewild Books and Open Borders Books, NYC
: This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sexuality as a teen, colorism and racism in Colombia, the restlessness wrought by capitalism and the desire to flee yourself and the accidents of your birth that ultimately coalesce into something so universally resonant, that will make any reader feel seen and connected. Truly an author worthy of attention.
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