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Award Winning Poet, Nate Marshall, Discusses his work
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Winner of the 2017 Great Lakes 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址s Association New Writers Award, poet, Nate Marshall offers a reading from his recent collection of poems, Wild Hundreds. Marshall, currently, a visiting professor at Wabash 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 in Indiana, engaged with professors and students at Barney Davis Board Room on February 8th, sponsored by the Beck Lecture Series and Co-Sponsored by the Black Studies Program. His latest book reflects on his experiences in South Side Chicago where he writes about identity, community, urban life, and contemporary circumstances he encounters as a Black male in this urban milieu. Wild Hundreds also illustrates the beauty and relics of Black history and grieves the continuous occurrences of black death via the systemic issues of state-sanctioned violence and other contemporary conditions in our society.
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Posted Date
Thursday, March 1, 2018
