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Black Invention: Imagining New Ways to Speak

Wed, April 21, 2021 6:00 P.M. Add to your calendar
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Presented by Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library in collaboration with Paul Robeson House & Museum. 

One of the many hallmarks of Jericho Brown's collection, The Tradition, is the original poetic form Brown invented called the duplex. The form is a combination of three different already existing forms: the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues poem. As a Black artist, finding alternate paths to explain or exclaim your humanity is a necessity.

This conversation, facilitated by poet Kirwyn Sutherland, will invite Black artists to reflect on  how to use the tools at their disposal to create new forms, spaces, and events that fulfill their needs and in some cases the needs of their respective communities.

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