Poets & Writers Theater
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This Schomburg Center event celebrates a half century of poetry by Quincy Troupe, who reads from his collection Duende: Poems, 1966–Now (Seven Stories Press, 2022) with the accompaniment of musicians Kelvyn Bell and Lonnie Plaxico, along with an introduction by poets Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Rashidah Ismaili, and Mervyn Taylor.
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“I think poetry should be part of popular culture, in the sense that poetry should be something we reach to.” Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, speaks about how his childhood in Topeka, Kansas influenced his new poetry collection, Brown (Knopf, 2018), with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown.
Tags: Poetry | Kevin Young | Brown | Knopf | 2018 | PBS NewsHour | Schomburg Center