Poets & Writers Theater
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“Scientists say the average human/ life gets three months longer every year. / By this math, death will be optional,” reads Nicole Sealey from her poem “The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born,” which appears in her collection Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017), in this reading with Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro (Tin House, 2019), at Scripps College.
Tags: Poetry | Nicole Sealey | Ordinary Beast | Ecco | 2017 | Morgan Parker | Magical Negro | Tin House | 2019 | Scripps College | 2020 | reading -
Nicole Sealey reads William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 6 and her poem “Even the Gods” from her debut collection, Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017), for the P.O.P series, which was was shot and edited by Rachel Eliza Griffiths in partnership with the Academy of American Poets. Sealey discusses poetry and craft with Dawn Lundy Martin in “Vagrant & Vulnerable” in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Nicole Sealey | reading | P.O.P. series | Academy of American Poets | Ordinary Beast | Ecco | 2017 | William Shakespeare | sonnet | Even the Gods | Dawn Lundy Martin | September/October 2017
