Robin Coste Lewis on her New Collection of Poems, "Voyage of the Sable Venus"

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Thu, 10/01/2015 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Monthly program featuring interviews and discussions of works by African American authors

The guest is poet Robin Coste Lewis, who talks about her new collection of poems, Voyage of the Sable Venus, a meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice.

Robin Coste Lewis is a Provost’s Fellow in Poetry and Visual Studies at the University of Southern California. She is also a Cave Canem fellow and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. She received her MFA in poetry from NYU, and an MTS in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University. A finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award, she has published her work in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition: Women in Literary Arts, VIDA, Phantom Limb, and Lambda Literary Review, among others. She has taught at Wheaton College, Hunter College, Hampshire College, and the NYU Low-Residency MFA in Paris. Lewis was born in Compton, California; her family is from New Orleans.

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