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AWP | Poets for the People: Killing the Negative: Book Talk & Reading with Quraysh Ali Lansana, Moheb Soliman, and Joel Daniel

February 9 @ 3:30 PM 4:30 PM


Friday February 9th

3:30 PM – Killing the Negative: Book Talk & Reading

Join poets Quraysh Ali Lansana and Moheb Soliman and visual artist Joel Daniel Phillips in reading and discussion, celebrating their new book, Killing the Negative: A Conversation in Art &Verse. A multi-year collaborative project, Killing the Negative is an ekphrastic response to the destruction of Depression-era photography of rural America —photos that were originally commissioned by the Farm Security Administration and destroyed by the administration’s own director. Together, the poet and artist will discuss the project and the questions it raises about power, representation, and America’s narratives.

Free

Black Archives Of Mid-America

1722 E 17th Terrace
Kansas City, Missouri 64108