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Join Litquake and the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in celebrating one of literature's most exciting new voices. In Prince Shakur's When They Tell You To Be Good the young author explores a life lived in the center of a complicated Venn diagram. In conversation with James Cagney. FREE, registration requiredPrince Shakur is a queer, Jamaican-American freelance journalist, cultural essayist, and grassroots organizer with a BA in Creative Writing from Ohio University. His words have been featured in Teen Vogue, Catapult, Level, Electric Lit, and more. In addition, Shakur is the proud writer-in-residence at Sangam House, Twelve Arts, The Studios of Key West, and La Maison Baldwin. His new memoir is When They Tell You To Be Good.
James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory, winner of the PEN Oakland 2018 Josephine Miles Award. His newest book, Martian: The Saint of Loneliness is the winner of the 2021 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. It is due from Nomadic Press this fall.
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Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), 685 Mission St, San Francisco, United States
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