Reading
Book Launch: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition of Zong! As told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng by m. nourbeSe philip, featuring a conversation with Tonya Foster
Presented as part of ALIEN AND ORDINARY: A POETS THEATER SYMPOSIUM, curated by Ethan Philbrick
by Nile Harris
read by Pamela Sneed, mayfield brooks, Jennifer Kidwell, Arewà Basit, Crackhead Barney, and Sandra Harris
let me hold your hand when I say this [the words are just words] is a new play by Nile Harris meditating on the ordinary poetics of desire and faith. The play is a text to be read simultaneously by six Black women. The readers become a discordant and out of sync choir as Harris performs a chance operation to determine whose voice is amplified at a given time.
Tickets to let me hold your hand when I say this [the words are just words] are $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. Attendees can also purchase a pass to all five events of ALIEN AND ORDINARY: A POETS THEATER SYMPOSIUM for $40.
This event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project's YouTube channel.
Alien and Ordinary: A Poets Theater Symposium is generously supported and made possible by funding from the Axe-Houghton Foundation.
