Feb 18 2025

Black Latinx Colloquium: Jean D’Amerique & Conor Bracken

Black Latinx Colloquium Series

February 18, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Jean D'Amérique is a multi-awarded poet, playwright, rapper, and novelist. The author of several plays and collections of poetry, he has received the Prix de Poésie de la Vocation for No Way in the Skin without This Bloody Embrace (Cheyne, 2017 / Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022) and the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté for his first novel, A Sun to Be Sewn (Actes Sud, 2021 / Other Press, 2023). Conor Bracken is a poet, translator, and educator. He is author of chapbook, Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press, 2017) and The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (2020 Diode Editions Book Prize).

Location

Virtual Only

Zoom Link

https://uic.zoom.us/j/87834324358?pwd=FGT4OZbAb68kzOnsHZUHl3dVleq4M2.1

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Jean D'Amérique is a multi-awarded poet, playwright, rapper, and novelist. The author of several plays and collections of poetry, he has received the Prix de Poésie de la Vocation for No Way in the Skin without This Bloody Embrace (Cheyne, 2017 / Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022) and the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté for his first novel, A Sun to Be Sewn (Actes Sud, 2021 / Other Press, 2023).

Conor Bracken is a poet, translator, and educator. He is author of chapbook, Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press, 2017) and The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (2020 Diode Editions Book Prize).

Contact

Daniel Borzutzky

dborz@uic.edu

Date posted

Feb 13, 2025

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