The weeks DO-NOT-MISS literary event! Jamaica Kincaid in conversation with Lauren K. Alleyne. Thursday at 7pm. FREE Literary Encounters, a new series from Adelphi Universitys MFA program, co-hosted by The Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Guernica and Community Bookstore, kicks off with one of literatures most influential writers, Jamaica Kincaid. Please join us for a wonderful night with novelist, essayist, and memoirist Jamaica Kincaid in conversation with debut poet Lauren K Alleyne on April 3rd, 7pm at Community Bookstore! T hey will be talking influences, career trajectories, and defiance, as well as the literary encounters that lit up their minds and shook up their writing. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served, and audience participation is welcome and encouraged. Moderated by Sharon Guskin. This is the inaugural event in the MFA Program at Adelphi Universitys conversation series: Literary Encounters, which will pair a vibrant cross-section of writers, critics, editors, and other literary professionals and focus on literary friendships, influences, and the importance of community. About the Authors: Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER, ANNIE JOHN, LUCY, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER, MY BROTHER, and, most recently, SEE NOW THEN. She was a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1976 until 1995 and has been publishing fiction and nonfiction since the mid-1970s. In 2000 Kincaid received the Prix Femina Étranger for MY BROTHER, and in fall 2009 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Kincaid is currently a Professor at Harvard University in the African and African American Department. Lauren K. Alleyne hails from Trinidad and Tobago and is the author of the poetry collection, DIFFICULT FRUIT. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Cornell University and is currently the Poet-in-Residence and an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Dubuque. Alleyne is a Cave Canem graduate whose work has been awarded numerous prizes, and widely published in literary journals and anthologies. cc: Sackett Street Writers
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