Nov 27th 2017

Kwame Dawes, Matthew Shenoda, and Natasha Trethew: Bearden’s Odyssey

@ Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine

61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654

Opening Monday, November 27th, from 7PM - 8PM

Inspired by Romare Bearden’s 1977 sequence of twenty watercolors, Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (2017) gathers original poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets in the United States. The book’s award-winning editors, Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda, join the nineteenth US Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey, for a reading and conversation about Bearden and his work.

Cosponsored with Cave Canem Foundation and Triquarterly Books

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