Melvin Dixon & Black Queer Poetry
Featured writers: CM Burroughs and Adrian Matejka. Presented by the Poetry Foundation.
Poets CM Burroughs and Adrian Matejka discuss the groundbreaking legacy of poet Melvin Dixon, who “wrote extensively about the complexities of being a gay Black man” (Poetry Foundation).
Book signing times (all signings take place in the Winter Garden, 9th Floor)
🖊️CM Burroughs: 3:00 – 3:20
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Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century by Adrian Matejka, art by Youssef Daoudi
A groundbreaking graphic portrait of boxing legend Jack Johnson, Last On His Feet offers a front-row seat to the Battle of the Century.
Master Suffering by CM Burroughs
The bodies of this book are supplicant yet seething—they want nothing more than to survive. But how does a woman survive? The female bodies of Master Suffering want power; they want to control and to correct the suffering they witness and withstand.
Trouble the Water by Melvin Dixon
Trouble the Water gains resonance from its unflinching confrontation with dualities common in the Afro-American experience: reality and myth, folklore and sophistication, North and South, rural and cosmopolitan.