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Chicago House Music: Culture + Community
August 15 @ 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Reading and panel discussion with book author, Marguerite L. Harrold along with Khari B, Discopoet, Founder of The Debauchery Ball and veteran House music DJ Michael Ikechukwu Ezebuku.
Including a special highlights viewing from the PBS documentary, House Music: A Cultural Revolution with Barbara Allen, Director and Producer
Marguerite L. Harrold is a Poet, Writer, Educator, Community Activist and Ecologist, originally from Chicago. She is the author of Chicago House Music, Culture and Community. She earned an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. She is an Associate Editor for Prairie Schooner, the Educational Promotions Manager for African Poetry Book Fund at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing.
Marguerite was nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize (Matador Review). She was also nominated for a 2020 Illinois Arts Council grant (Chicago Review) and was a 2020 finalist for an Allied Arts Council grant. She is a member of the Community of Writers and attended the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Conference and was a 2021/2022 Hugo House Fellow.
Her work has been published in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Chicago Review, RHINO, Anti-Heroin Chic and other journals.