Tuesday, April 24, 2018
7pm-8pm ET
Sweeten Alumni House or Online

Join Penn Professor Herman Beavers for an interactive discussion of his newly-released poetry chapbook, Obsidian Blues. You can download this work for free at http://www.sundresspublications.com/agape/obsidianblues.pdf.
 
This program, free and open to all Penn alumni, is co-hosted by the Center for Africana Studies and co-sponsored by Penn Spectrum Programs.

About Herman Beavers:
Herman Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses on Southern Modernism, 20th Century African American Poetry, as well as "Trading Fours: The Literatures of Jazz," which is a requisite course in the Jazz and Popular Music minor. He also teaches a section of the introductory poetry workshop in the Creative Writing Program. Professor His most recent poems have appeared (or are about to appear) in MELUS, The Langston Hughes Colloquy, Versadelphia, Cleaver Magazine, and The American Arts Quarterly. He has recently published essays on August Wilson, Charles Johnson, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison. His latest book, Changing the Order of Things: Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.