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Hanif Abdurraqib, Gillian McCain, & Legs McNeil

Poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, and writers and oral historians Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil, each make their work at the crowded, noisy, and very often wild intersection of spoken word, music, subculture, and investigative poetry. With a punk dedication to challenging the world as it is as a way to imagine it otherwise, Abdurraqib’s work explores the community, both vitalizing and impermanent, that is formed around loving a band, a poem, a sound, and your friends. With an investigative journalists commitment to getting to the bottom of the story, McNeil and McCain tell the tales of their interview subjects by weaving them into a kaleidoscopic narrative, resulting in a kind of multi-layered non fiction novel that is full of sex, drugs, rock and roll, and in the case of their new book, cultural history and crime.











When: Fri., Nov. 15, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Where: St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
131 E. 10th St.
212-674-6377
Price: $8
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Poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, and writers and oral historians Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil, each make their work at the crowded, noisy, and very often wild intersection of spoken word, music, subculture, and investigative poetry. With a punk dedication to challenging the world as it is as a way to imagine it otherwise, Abdurraqib’s work explores the community, both vitalizing and impermanent, that is formed around loving a band, a poem, a sound, and your friends. With an investigative journalists commitment to getting to the bottom of the story, McNeil and McCain tell the tales of their interview subjects by weaving them into a kaleidoscopic narrative, resulting in a kind of multi-layered non fiction novel that is full of sex, drugs, rock and roll, and in the case of their new book, cultural history and crime.

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