EventsThe New Social Environment#51

Mahogany L. Browne with Bob Holman

Featuring Browne and Holman

Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Writer Mahogany L. Browne joins poet Bob Holman for a conversation.

In this Talk

Mahogany L. Browne

A photo of Mahogany L. Browne on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Courtesy Mahogany L. Browne
Mahogany L. Browne, a Kennedy Center’s Next 50 fellow, is a writer, playwright, organizer, & educator. Browne received fellowships from All Arts, Arts for Justice, Air Serenbe, Baldwin for the Arts, Cave Canem, Hawthornden, Poets House, Mellon Research, Rauschenberg, Wesleyan University, & UCross. Browne’s books include Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky (optioned for a play by Steppenwolf Theater), Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne currently tours Chrome Valley (highlighted in Publishers Weekly and The New York Times) and is the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize winner.

Bob Holman

A photo of Bob Holman on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Portrait by Phong H. Bui

An American poet and poetry activist, Bob Holman is equal parts spoken word performer, professor, impresario, activist, founder and proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, filmmaker and host of Language Matters (2015 Documentary of the Year, Berkeley Film Festival), and beyond. “Talking Pictures,” is a film of Bob Holman’s ekphrastic poems based on the paintings of Elizabeth Murray, music by David Lang and Suzanne Vega, it’s Directed by Kristi Zea who also directed the American Masters documentary “Everybody Knows Elizabeth Murray.” Both streaming from Kino Lorber. Holman's latest chapbook WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM, streaming poems, is coming soon from SubPress Collective, and solo show: “Life Poem” with Mivos Quartet, workshop performance this spring.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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