VenueFrick Fine Arts Auditorium 

Date04/05/2017 

Time7:00 PM - 8:30 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorCenter for African American Poetry and Poetics 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Sites of Memory: A Language for Grieving will feature the internationally acclaimed poet M. NourbeSe Philip; Sonya Posmentier, Assistant Professor of English at NYU; and Ibrahima Seck, academic director of the Whitney Plantation, a “site of memory” focused on the lives of the enslaved people who lived and worked there. Born in Tobago and based in Toronto, Philip is best known for her book Zong!, which relies on the text of the late eighteenth-century legal decision Gregson vs Gilbert, concerning the murder of 150 Africans on the slave ship Zong.

This event is a collaboration between CAAPP and the Race, Poetics, Empire focal area of the English Department.

Primary Contact PersonLauren Russell 

Primary Contact Emailcaapp@pitt.edu 

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Websitehttp://caapp.pitt.edu 

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Is this an open mic event? No 

Is this a book signing? No 

Will author's books be for sale? No 

Address 1Schenley Drive 

Address 2Oakland 

Address 3 

CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15260 

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AuthorLauren Michelle Russell 

Websitehttp://caapp.pitt.edu 

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Short bio: The Center emerged in a brainstorming session between Pitt poetry professors Terrance Hayes, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Yona Harvey.