BAAD! Courageous Conversations: Strategies for Living + Loving in America
Featuring John Keene and Robert Jones, Jr.
Hello Family,
I hope your new year is going well so far.
I just wanted to pop in really quickly to let you know that I will have the privilege of being in conversation with the legendary John Keene at BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. Here are the details:
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
7 p.m. EST
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
2474 Westchester Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461
Tickets are free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/courageous-conversations-john-keene-robert-jones-jr-tickets-808301309977
National Book Award-winning author John Keene (Punks: New & Selected Poems) and New York Times bestselling author Robert Jones, Jr. (The Prophets) offer empowering strategies for queer communities and our allies on how to thrive in the current political climate.
BAAD!’s Courageous Conversations forum brings together leading thinkers and doers from the arts, media, and politics. This offering includes John Keene, a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. His 2022 poetry collection, Punks: New and Selected Poems, received the National Book Award for Poetry. Keene will be in conversation with Robert Jones, Jr., the author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets, about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation. The book was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction, won many awards and was named one of the best books of 2021 by Time, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post, among others.
I hope to see you in the Boogie Down!
Blessings upon blessings,
Robert