Arianna we are very excited about the authors who will be speaking here. Started, please silence your cell phones. We are filming and recording today and we prefer not to have any interruptions. We sure to use a microphone at the end of the event to ask questions. If you have not purchased a book and would like to do so, they are available at the register. After the event is over, there will be a signing line to the right of this table here. If you have been here before, you know we ask everyone to fold up their chairs after the event. Here with us tonight is dr. Damaris hill. Dr. Hill is an accomplished explores the work digital humanities. She has written the fluid boundaries of suffrage and jim crow. Dr. Hill is an assistant professor of africanamerican studies at the university of kentucky but she is here to talk to us about her most recent work , a bound woman is a dangerous thing. Dr. Hill honors the lives and suffering of africanamerican women heroes throughout history while pro
Day at all three locations here, and our new union market. We are excited about the offers that will be speaking for the next month so i encourage everyone to grab the Event Calendar to see who will be here in february. Before we get started i would like to remind everyone to silence your cell phones and devices. We are filming today and dont want any interruptions. We also ask you to make sure to use one of the microphones at the end to ask questions. If you dont speak into the microphone, your question will not be picked up on the recording. If you havent purchased a book yet and would like to do so, they are available you can ask a staff member and they will grab a copy. After the event is over there will be a signing blind to the right of the table and if youve been here before you know we ask everyone to fold up chair pull up a chair after the event and make resetting the store easier for the staff. Dr. Hill is an accomplished author and scholar. She has written two previous books
Life, raise my kids, be a good father and teacher. I think we should all want that, for everyone, just to feel like we belong. Go ahead. I know we have another one. Host have to cut you off. I apologize. The author is chastity buttigieg. The book is called i have something to tell you. Go first. Sorry. Maybe it makes sense. Jericho is moderating. I am casper. I am the head of poetry at the library of congress. I want to give a shot to everyone in the room and those joining us via cspan across the country. I am pleased to introduce this event behind the scenes with black writers. Featuring Jericho Brown and two authors. Jericho was last at the festival in tonight 2019 to talk about his third and most recent book of poems which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize of poetry. [applause] he is the Charles Howard professor and creative writer at Emory University. Today, he is here to lead a discussion on the anthology edited titled how we do it, black writers, how we craft, practice, and skill
Kevin my name is kevin butterfield. It is my great pleasure to introduce you that todays speakers. Our center is one of the sponsors we are proud to bring americas most beloved writers to this room. We want to welcome everyone joining us live on cspan. Our next panels records of survival escaping genocide and human trafficking. His new book is waiting to be arrested at night. A memoir of chinas genocide. The founder and director of resilience force. His book is titled the great escape, a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams. He is a lecturer in princeton. Our moderator writes for the Washington Post opinion section and is the author of prisoner, my 544 days in an iranian prison, solitary confinement, and the extraordinary efforts it took to get me out. Join me in welcoming them. [applause] i want to thank everybody for being here today and for watching me at home. This is an extraordinary honor and privilege for me. Over the last couple of weeks i have got to know him intima
Writers conference. It is such a pleasure to be today. This afternoon, in conversation with Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a literary consult tim Patricia Spears Jones is an arkansas born and raised playwright cultural and author of the beloved community