BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190404T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T224736 CREATED:20190110T090600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190110T090600Z UID:249039-1554404400-1554411600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Magical Negro: A Reading by Morgan Parker DESCRIPTION:Join acclaimed poet Morgan Parker as she reads from her latest collection\, Magical Negro.\n\nMagical Negro (Tin House Books\, 2019) is an archive of Black everydayness\, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes\, an ethnography of ancestral grief\, and an inventory of figureheads\, idioms\, and customs. Focused primarily on depictions of Black womanhood alongside personal narratives\, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics—of both the body and society\, of both the individual and the collective experience. \n\nAbout the Author\n\nMorgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House Books\, 2017) and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books\, 2015). Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House\, the Paris Review\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop\, Best American Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, and more. She is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts in Literature Fellowship\, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize\, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. \n  \n\nRelated Classes\n\nMorgan Parker will be teaching What Now?\, a one-session workshop\, on Thursday\, April 4\, from 1–4 pm. Register today! URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/magical-negro-a-reading-by-morgan-parker/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR