Presenting Poets Nate Marshall Kaveh Akbar
Join us on Saturday September 25th 2021 at 3pm CST for a special virtual gathering.
Race Project KC will host a 2021 - 2022 kick off community partner event to honor our commitment to cultivating student voices & building community.
Poets Nate Marshall and Kaveh Akbar will be our featured guests.
These writers center their work around identity, community, and “artifacts of self and belonging that have been shed.”
We invite you in to hear the voices and poetry of these two phenomenal poets and share in the Q&A that will follow.
This gathering is co-sponsored and in conjunction with the Common Sense Reading Series.
Nate Marshall is the author and editor of numerous works including Finna, Wild Hundreds, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis Esq. He teaches creative writing and literature at Colorado College. Nate was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago.
Kaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and has received honors such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson and Randolph Colleges. His newest collection of poetry, Pilgrim Bell, has been received with overwhelming praise - "it is a book we need now".
