An Evening with Poet Brad Walrond—”Every Where Alien”
When: Wed., Oct. 16, 2024 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmWhere: Revolution Books
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @132nd St
212-691-3345 Price: Free—you can donate!
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LIVE at Revolution Books an evening with poet
BRAD WALROND
with his new collection EVERY WHERE ALIEN
“Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. . . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries to write the poems that only he could write, poems that travel time and spacefor a truth that is sometimes painful and always necessary.”
—Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Tradition
At Revolution Books – where the whole world comes first and the poetic spirit meets the search for the truth…
We are pleased to present an evening with Brad Walrond– poet, author and performance artist. His newly-released collection traces blackness, queerness, and desire Iin an afro-surrealist journey through New York City’s New Black Arts Movement, Black Rock Coalition, the Underground House Music-Dance community, the HIV/AIDS Black Queer Artivists, and the House Ballroom Scene. He pays homage to giants like James Baldwin, NinaSimone, Octavia Butler, Ntozake Shange, Amiri Baraka, Greg Tate, Larry Levan, Erykah Badu, Vernon Reid, Yasiin Bey, Patti Smith, Kendrick Lamar, Kalief Browder, Sarah Jones…
Brad Walrond is one of the foremost writers of the 1990s Black Arts Movement centered in New York City.
Every Where Alien is the first book of the joint program betweenAmistad and Moore Black Press.