Books & Books, O, Miami and The Black Archives History & Reasearch Foundation of South Florida, Inc. present

AN EVENING WITH HANIF ABDURRAQIB & ALEXANDRA T. VAZQUEZ

MODERATED BY P. SCOTT CUNNINGHAM

to discuss how music and other cultural activities forge a sense of place. Activations, bar, and live DJ in the lobby before the event!

Saturday, April 1, 7:30PM

In-Person @ Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater: 819 NW 2nd Ave Miami, FL 33136

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Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest release, A Little Devil In America (Random House, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.

Alexandra T. Vazquez is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the author of The Florida Room (Duke University Press), chosen by Pitchfork as one of the best music books of 2022. Her previous book, Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Duke University Press 2013), won the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero Book Prize in 2014. Vazquez is a proud graduate of the New World School of the Arts high school in Miami, Florida.

P. Scott Cunningham is the founder and executive director of O, Miami and the author of Ya Te Veo (Arkansas UP, 2018), selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins as part of the Miller Williams Poetry Series. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in The Nation, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, POETRY, A Public Space, Harvard Review, Monocle, and The Guardian, among others. He lives in Miami with his family.