Khadijah Queen and Justin Phillip Reed read from and talk about their poetry. Khadijah Queen is the author of five books of poetry, most recently I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books, 2017), a finalist for the National Poetry Series, which was praised in O Magazine, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere as “quietly devastating,” and “a portrait of defiance that turns the male gaze inside out.” Earlier poetry collections include Conduit (Akashic / Black Goat, 2008), Black Peculiar (Noemi Press, 2011), and Fearful Beloved (Argos Books, 2015). Her newest collection, Anodyne, was published by Tin House Books in August 2020. Her verse play Non-Sequitur (Litmus Press, 2015) won the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women's Performance Writing. The prize included a full staged production of the play at Theaterlab NYC from December 10 to December 20, 2015, by Fiona Templeton's The Relationship theater company. Individual poems and prose appear in Poetry, Fence, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Buzzfeed, Gulf Coast, Poor Claudia, The Offing, jubilat, Memoir, Tupelo Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Lit Hub, New Delta Review, The Force of What's Possible, and elsewhere. Her 2019 op-ed on poetry and disability, co-edited with Jillian Weise, appeared in The New York Times. Justin Phillip Reed is the winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry for Indecency (Coffee House Press, 2018), which Library Journal called, “one of a kind brilliant.” The National Book Award poetry jury celebrated the book as “political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful,” and Vox praised it as “an unflinching exploration of power, race, sexuality, gender, the personal and the political.” Reed is also the author of the chapbook A History of Flamboyance (YesYes Books, 2016). His newest book of poetry is The Malevolent Volume, which was published by Coffee House Press in April 2020. His poetry appears in African American Review, Best American Essays, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Obsidian, and elsewhere. Please email poetry@prattlibrary.org with questions about this event. DIAL-IN INFORMATION Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://marylandlibraries.zoom.us/j/95917461558?pwd=UmFVREY0cGJPdVprZHZQblhGb1Nodz09 Passcode: 912249 Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 301 715 8592 or +1 470 250 9358 or +1 470 381 2552 or +1 646 518 9805 or +1 646 558 8656 or +1 651 372 8299 or +1 786 635 1003 or +1 267 831 0333 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 602 753 0140 or +1 669 219 2599 or +1 669 900 9128 or +1 720 928 9299 or +1 971 247 1195 or +1 213 338 8477 or +1 253 215 8782 Webinar ID: 959 1746 1558 Passcode: 912249 International numbers available: https://marylandlibraries.zoom.us/u/ajbNLyovy The conversation will also be broadcasted on the Enoch Pratt Free Library Facebook page.
