Thu, Jul 25
|Tsakopoulos Library Galleria
SACRAMENTO CA - James Spooner and Hanif Abdurraqib in convo . Live Performance Sweeping Promises
After Afro-Punk: Enters the Chat – July 25 from 6 - 8 p.m. at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria
Time & Location
Jul 25, 2024, 7:00 PM
Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I St, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA
About the event
After Afro-Punk: Enters the Chat – July 25 from 6 - 8 p.m. at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria
FREE!
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Join us for a celebration of the local music, poetry, and zine communities when graphic novelist James Spooner and poet Hanif Abdurraqib sit down for an insightful conversation followed by a performance by Sweeping Promises.
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full-length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited-edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in…