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2021.09.24: Katherine Agyemaa Agard / Desiree C. Bailey

 

Please join the Organism for Poetic Research for our first event of the Fall 2021 semester!

1:00pm ET on Friday September 24, 2021

The OPR will host a virtual reading with Katherine Agyemaa Agard and Desiree C. Bailey over Zoom.

Please RSVP to louise.akers@nyu.edu for the Zoom link.

 

Katherine Agyemaa Agard is a Trinidadian writer currently based in San Francisco. Her first book, of colour, was recently longlisted for the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature.

Desiree C. Bailey is the author of What Noise Against the Cane (Yale University Press, 2021), winner of the 2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook In Dirt or Saltwater (O’clock Press, 2016) and has short stories and poems published in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Short Fiction, Callaloo, the Academy of American Poets and elsewhere. Desiree was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.