Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts by Nikky Finney is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming through four hundred years of Black American life. Be Holding: A Poem by Ross Gay connects the famously impossible move by legendary basketball player Julius Erving – known as Dr. J – during the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography and surveillance and state violence, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love.
Moderated by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of Rocket Fantastic: Poems.
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