Hickory Sun

City of Hickory recently issued the following announcement.

LRU Visiting Writers Series: Morgan Parker

Thursday, February 13, 2020 from 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm 

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WHEN

Thursday, February 13, 2020 from 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm 

WHERE

Belk Centrum - LRU at 625 7th Avenue Northeast

Hickory, North Carolina, United States, 28601

City-Wide Event

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Morgan Parker

February 13, 2020

Belk Centrum @ 7 pm

Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, and the poetry collection Magical Negro. Parker received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology and creative writing from Columbia University and her MFA in poetry from NYU. Her poetry and essays have been published in various renowned publications, including the New York Times, the Paris Review, and Best American Poetry 2016. Parker is also a winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow.

She is the creator and host of “Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel.” Her debut young adult novel Who Put This Song On? will be published by Delacorte Press in late 2019, and her debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. Parker captures the braided thoughts of Black identity deeply entrenched in American culture, yet somehow considered other. Along the way, she weaves in history, Bible references, and internal Black dialogue, with titles like, “Two White Girls in the African Braid Shop on Marcy and Fulton.” Parker captures Blackness and incorporates pop culture into relatable experiences of the Black experience. In the Magical Negro she covers the insides, outsides, and in-betweens of Blackness, sparking conversation about very specific and personal experiences that illuminate the intersections of Blackness and femininity.

Original source: https://www.hickorync.gov/content/city-meetings-and-events#event=37334989