Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents
Mahogany L. Browne
February 18, 2026 at 7pm
Studio T1
Mahogany L. Browne, a 2022 Kennedy Center Next 50 Fellow, MacDowell Arts Advocacy Awardee, and NY Emmy nominee for the documentary How to Build a City (All Arts), is a writer, playwright, organizer, and educator. She has received fellowships from All Arts, Arts for Justice, Air Serenbe, Baldwin for the Arts, Cave Canem, Hawthornden, Poets House, Mellon Research, Rauschenberg, Wesleyan University, and UCross.
Her books include Vinyl Moon; Chlorine Sky (optioned for the stage by Steppenwolf Theatre); Black Girl Magic; and the frequently banned works Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. She is also the founder of the Woke Baby Book Fair, a diverse literary initiative.
Browne’s poetry collection Chrome Valley, highlighted in Publishers Weekly and The New York Times, won the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize and she is the winner of the Holmes National Poetry Prize, awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is especially excited to tour her newest young adult novel, A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe. Mahogany L. Browne holds an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from Marymount Manhattan College and serves as the inaugural poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center.