Name: Black Poetics, Black Worldbuilding
Start: 2024-10-12T15:30:00-07:00
Location: San Francisco Public Library

Located in the Saroyan Gallery
Co-moderated by Lyn Patterson and Vincente Perez, this session considers Black poetics as a world-building phenomenon. In the lineage of Black poets like Henry Dumas and June Jordan, panelists Darius Simpson and Nefertiti Asanti write against the Human, write towards Black eco-poetics, and write as political education to form critical practices of viewing, listening, and being. Hear how they use poetry to dissect and analyze the worlds of white supremacy, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy, charting a path toward alternative worlds and possibilities.
FREE, $10-15 suggested donation