The scope and influence of his public talks and lectures during the 1970’s and early 1980’s, as well as the fiction and non-fiction he published during that decade-namely, If Beale Street Could Talk, resonate with current educators, activists, and artists of all stripes.
The power of the legacy of James Baldwin and his work cannot be underestimated in current political contexts, social and literary movements, and in popular culture. She is currently working on a book of travel narratives. A zuihitsu/essay about the pandemic, “False Dawn,” appeared in Harper’s Magazine and was named a Notable Essay by Best American in 2020. Khadijah Queen is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Anodyne (Tin House 2020), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. A Kundiman fellow, Soham is also an assistant editor at Fence and The Georgia Review. Her chapbooks include and nevermind the storm (Portable Press Yo-Yo Labs 2013) and in airplane and other poems (oxeye 2018). Soham Patel is the author of the poetry collections to afar from afar (The Accomplices 2018) and ever really hear it (Subito Press, 2018). She is an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College where she directs the poetry program. Matthews received a 2020 Pew Fellowship and a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Matthews’ first collection of poems is the critically acclaimed Simulacra, which received the prestigious 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Her memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds (University of Arizona 2010) was a finalist for the American Book Award. In 2020, she received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, which recognizes distinguished poetic achievement.Īirea D. How do we experience the world as writers and thinkers and travelers, as we center ourselves in awareness of how other people might perceive us? How do we reconcile our knowledge of the nefarious legacy of imperialism with the relative privileges we may enjoy abroad as Americans? What has changed and what remains the same with travel and travel writing since “Strangers in the Village” was published in 1955? Drawing on the concerns of Baldwin’s iconic essay, this panel will discuss strategies for approaching the travel narrative from our unique perspectives.Ĭarmen Giménez Smith is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Be Recorder (Graywolf 2019), a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.
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