Martha Collins and Tyehimba Jess

Martha Collins’s new book of poems, Admit One: An American Scrapbook, utilizes documentary sources to trace the history of scientific racism in early 20th-century America. “A strikingly original collection that combines brilliant storytelling and compelling commentary,” wrote The Washington Post.

Tyehimba Jess’s Olio is a “21st-century hymnal of black evolutionary poetry, a theatrical melange of miraculous meta-memory,” wrote Nikki Finney. “Inventive, prophetic, wondrous, he writes unflinchingly into the historical clefs of blackface, black sound and human sensibility.”











When: Thu., Oct. 27, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $15
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Martha Collins’s new book of poems, Admit One: An American Scrapbook, utilizes documentary sources to trace the history of scientific racism in early 20th-century America. “A strikingly original collection that combines brilliant storytelling and compelling commentary,” wrote The Washington Post.

Tyehimba Jess’s Olio is a “21st-century hymnal of black evolutionary poetry, a theatrical melange of miraculous meta-memory,” wrote Nikki Finney. “Inventive, prophetic, wondrous, he writes unflinchingly into the historical clefs of blackface, black sound and human sensibility.”

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