Lannan Center Podcast
50 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University is a literary, critical, and pedagogical undertaking devoted to the situation of poetry and poetics in the contemporary world. Based in the President’s Office, the Center brings attention to a traditional domain of academic research, but sees poetry as a current practice rather than as a field of historical research. The Center recognizes that “art’s social presence,” in the phrase of Adrienne Rich, is vital to contemporary culture; that poetry, or writing more generally, traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought: it reconfigures these fields according to the designs of imagination. The Lannan Center hosts Readings and Talks throughout the academic year. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.
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Rabih Alameddine | 2023-2024 Readings & Talks
October 17, 2023 21:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBOn Tuesday, October 17, 2023, the Lannan Center presented a reading by writer and Lannan Visiting Chair, Rabih Alameddine. Introduction by Deborah Tannen, Distinguished University Professor. Rabih Alameddine is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, most recently The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Press, 2021), winner of the Pen/Faulkner Prize in 2022. He is also the author of The Angel of History (Grove Press, 2016), winner of the Lambda Literary Award 2017; An Unnecessary Woman...
Leila Aboulela | 2023-2024 Readings & Talks
October 03, 2023 21:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBOn Tuesday, October 3, 2023 the Lannan Center presented a reading and conversation featuring writer Leila Aboulela and moderated by Tope Folarin, Lannan Creative Writing Visiting Lecturer. Introduction by Rabih Alameddine, Lannan Visiting Chair. Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese writer whose work has received critical recognition and a high profile for its depiction of the interior lives of Muslim women and its distinctive exploration of identity, migration and Islamic spirituality. She is the a...
Arthur Sze | 2023-2024 Readings & Talks
September 19, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBOn Tuesday, September 19, 2023, the Lannan Center presented a reading by poet Arthur Sze. Introduction by Duncan Wu, Raymond Wagner Professor in Literary Studies. Arthur Sze has published eleven books of poetry, including Sight Lines (2019), which won the National Book Award, and The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (2021). His other books include Compass Rose (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist and The Ginkgo Light (2009), selected for the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Mountai...
Camille T. Dungy and Major Jackson | 2022-2023 Readings & Talks
April 11, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBOn April 11, 2023, The Lannan Center hosted a reading and talk featuring poets Camille T. Dungy and Major Jackson. Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for ...
Kazim Ali and Fanny Howe | 2022-2023 Readings & Talks
February 28, 2023 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBOn February 28, 2023, The Lannan Center hosted a reading and talk featuring poets Kazim Ali and Fanny Howe. Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including the volumes of poetry Inquisition, Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the...
2023 Lannan Symposium | "Body Image" Featuring Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Baseera Khan
February 09, 2023 02:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBA Conversation with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (Author of Big Girl) and Artist Baseera Khan, moderated by Prof. Nadia Brown. If a body could speak, what would it say? The way our bodies are viewed and categorized is not always within our power. A writer and a visual artist reflect upon representing, in words and images, the experiences which come with existing in bodies: black, brown, queer, female, Muslim, big – defined by systems of power beyond our control. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A...
2023 Lannan Symposium | "How We Die" Featuring Diane Rehm and Dr. Ewan Goligher
February 08, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBA Discussion with NPR’s Diane Rehm and Dr. Ewan Goligher Followed by a Panel Discussion with Dr. Lydia Dugdale (Columbia University), Dr. Ewan Goligher (University of Toronto), Diane Rehm (NPR), and Dr. Katalin Roth (George Washington University), moderated by journalist John Donvan. Should we be able to choose how and when we die? And what are the real-life consequences of laws that allow for medical assistance in dying? An international panel of physicians, writers, and ethicists set the...
2023 Lannan Symposium | "Surviving in the Aftermath" A Conversation with Meghan O'Rourke
February 07, 2023 01:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBA Conversation with Meghan O’Rourke, Author of The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.
2023 Lannan Symposium | "Surviving in the Aftermath" Panel
February 07, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBA Panel Discussion with Rabih Alameddine (The Angel of History), Meghan O’Rourke (The Invisible Kingdom), and Dr. Daniel Marchalik, moderated by Tope Folarin. More than just a sickness, pandemics are the place where illness meets politics. Today we live in the aftermath of two great pandemics, the AIDS pandemic of the 1980’s and the COVID-19 pandemic. How has our society and how have we been changed by those events? What is the role of the writer as activist or custodian of memory in the st...
Patricia Smith | 2022-2023 Readings & Talks
January 24, 2023 15:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBOn Tuesday, January 24th, 2023, The Lannan Center hosted a reading and conversation with poet Patricia Smith, Patricia Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall ...
Laila Lalami | 2022-2023 Readings & Talks
November 15, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBOn Tuesday, November 15, 2022, the Lannan Center hosted a reading and conversation with writer Laila Lalami and moderated by Aminatta Forna. Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of five books, most recently, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, which was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Her other books include, The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, th...
Chen Chen | 2022-2023 Readings & Talks
November 01, 2022 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBOn November 1, 2022 the Lannan Center hosted a reading and talk featuring writer Chen Chen and moderated by Carolyn Forché. Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three...
Seán Hewitt | 2022-2023 Readings & Talks
October 04, 2022 19:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBOn Tuesday, October 4, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring writer Seán Hewit. Hosted by Professor Cóilín Parsons, Director of Global Irish Studies. Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. His debut collection, Tongues of Fire, is published by Jonathan Cape. He is a book critic for The Irish Times and teaches Modern British & Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin. His debut collection, Tongues of Fire, won The Laurel Prize, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young...
A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
September 14, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBOn Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a special evening featuring Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah. Hosted by Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna. Introduction by Lahra Smith, Director of the African Studies Program. Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, AFTERLIVES is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in August 2022. He is the author of nine previous novels, including Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize)...
A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
September 14, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBOn Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a special evening featuring Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah. Hosted by Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna. Introduction by Lahra Smith, Director of the African Studies Program. Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, AFTERLIVES is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in August 2022. He is the author of nine previous novels, including Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize)...
Victoria Chang and Rachel Eliza Griffiths | 2021-2022 Readings & Talks
April 12, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBOn Tuesday, April 12, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Victoria Chang and Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Hosted by Carolyn Forché. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Max Zhang and Hiruni Herat. About Victoria Chang Victoria Chang’s new book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything is forthcoming (Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K.). Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions), was published in 2021. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), her mos...
2022 Lannan Symposium | Reimagining the American Narrative
March 23, 2022 21:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBAbout The United States: exceptional, individual, shining city on the hill, home of democracy, land of the free, of the “American Dream” and the pursuit of happiness. A national narrative is composed of ideas made into stories. And these stories are powerful. In a time of division can Americans agree on a common story or make space for multiple narratives? Panelists: Rabih Alameddine, Aleksandar Hemon, Fathali Moghaddam, and Patricia Smith. Chaired by John Freeman Music: Quantum Jazz — "Or...
2022 Lannan Symposium | Does America Need a TRC?
March 23, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBAbout As the calls for social and racial justice grow, could the United States follow the example of South Africa and other conflict-affected nations and engage in a national, formal reconciliation process? Panelists: Elham Atashi, Tope Folarin, Aleksandar Hemon, and Tim Phillips. Chaired by David Smith Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.
2022 Lannan Symposium | Can America Survive Capitalism?
March 23, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBAbout Wage inequality in the United States is approaching the extreme level that prevailed prior to the Great Depression, creating new social classes: the precariat (those on short term or zero hours contracts without benefits) and the one percent. With disparity widening––and anger building among some of the dispossessed––can the American Dream endure? Panelists: Sarah Anderson, Amy Goldstein, and John Freeman. Chaired by Tope Folarin Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Pr...
2022 Lannan Symposium | Writing in a Time of Crisis
March 23, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBAbout We write to make sense of the world around us. From war and political violence to natural disasters and pandemics – how have writers of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction responded to crises in their nation’s history? Panelists: Rabih Alameddine, Aleksandar Hemon, and Patricia Smith; Chaired by Jacki Lyden Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.
2022 Lannan Symposium | Who Are We & Where Are We Coming From?
March 23, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBAbout If the lion does not tell his story, the hunter will. The history of the United States, as it is currently taught, is being contested like never before. Is it possible to reconcile differing perspectives on America’s national narrative? Panelists: Mark Muller, Elizabeth Rule, and Clint Smith; Chaired by Adam Rothman. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.
Melody C. Barnes | 2022 Lannan Symposium | Keynote Speech
March 22, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBKeynote Speech by Melody C. Barnes: "In Search of an Inclusive America: Culture, Politics, and the Narratives That Define Us" on March 22, 2022. About Melody C. Barnes Melody Barnes is executive director of the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy. She is also the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and a senior fellow at the Karsh Center for Law & Democracy. Ms. Barnes was Assistant to the President and director of the White Hou...
Lannan Symposium 2022 Trailer: “Is There Such a Thing as American Exceptionalism?”
March 08, 2022 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.63 MBClips taken from past event "Is There Such a Thing as American Exceptionalism?” held at Beyond Borders Scotland on August 29, 2021. Music: AudioInfinity — "Inspirational Piano" — Provided by Jamendo.
Lannan Symposium 2022 Trailer: "The View From Abroad"
March 08, 2022 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.76 MBClips taken from past event The View From Abroad: “What Can America Learn from the Experience of Other Nations at a Time of Crisis?” held on Crowdcast on March 18, 2021. Music: Soundside (royalty free music) — "Violin Inspiration" — Provided by Jamendo.
Mark Nowak | 2021-2022 Readings & Talks
February 09, 2022 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBOn February 8th, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Mark Nowak. Moderated by Carolyn Forché. About Mark Nowak Mark Nowak is the author of four poetry collections: Social Poetics (Coffee House Press, 2020), Coal Mountain Elementary (2009), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Revenants (2000). Also a playwright, essayist, social critic, and labor activist, Nowak’s writing documents the hardships and injustices faced by the global working class. Nowak is the recipie...
Virtual Event: Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior | 2021-2022 Readings & Talks
January 26, 2022 00:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBOn January 25th, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior. Moderated by Carolyn Forché. About Valzhyna Mort Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press 2011) and, mostly recently, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020). Mort is a recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundati...
Virtual Event: Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior
January 26, 2022 00:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBOn January 25th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior. Moderated by Carolyn Forché. About Valzhyna Mort Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press 2011) and, mostly recently, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020). Mort is a recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundati...
Special Event: Tope Folarin | 2021-2022 Readings & Talks Series
November 30, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBOn November 30th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring author Tope Folarin Introduction by Aminatta Forna. About Tope Folarin Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, D.C. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. Folarin was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned...
Aminatta Forna in Conversation with John Freeman I 2021-2022 Readings and Talks Series
November 09, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBOn November 9th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring author Aminatta Forna and editor John Freeman. Introduction by David Gewanter. About Aminatta Forna Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of the novels Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, and most re...
Douglas Stuart in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan I 2021-2022 Readings and Talks Series
October 26, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBOn October 26th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring Douglas Stuart and Maureen Corrigan. Introduction by Aminatta Forna. About Douglas Stuart Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the Booker Prize. It is published by Grove Atlantic in the US and Picador in the UK, and is to be translated into thirty-four languages. He wrote Shuggie Bain over a ten year period and is currently at work on his second novel, to be published ...
Jericho Brown I 2021-2022 Readings and Talks Series
October 12, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBOn October 12th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Jericho Brown. Introduction by Carolyn Forché. About Jericho Brown Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Ani...
An Evening with Acclaimed Writer Sofi Oksanen
September 21, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBOn September 21st, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring Sofi Oksanen. Moderated by Lannan Center Director, Aminatta Forna. Cosponsored by the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Global and Comparative Literature Program, the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Women's Center at Georgetown University. About Sofi Oksanen Sofi Oksanen is a Finnish-Estonian nov...
A Reading Featuring 2020 Caine Prize Winner Irenosen Okojie
April 20, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBOn April 20, 2021, we held a virtual reading and conversation with Irenosen Okojie, winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. Moderated by Prof. Lahra Smith, Director of African Studies Program. Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian-British writer. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize For Fiction for her story, “Grace Jones.” Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured i...
Readings & Talks Featuring Carolyn Forché
April 13, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBOn April 13, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Carolyn Forché. Moderated by Penn Szittya of the Lannan Foundation. Carolyn Forché's first volume of poetry, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. In March, 2020, Penguin Press published her fifth collection of poems, In the Lateness of the World. She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard Is...
The View From Abroad: "What Can America Learn from the Experience of Other Nations at a Time of Crisis?"
March 18, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBOn March 18, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar on the subject The View From Abroad: "What Can America Learn from the Experience of Other Nations at a Time of Crisis?" This was the launch event of "Beyond Identity: Reimagining the American Narrative," the Lannan Seminars at Georgetown University, and featured Aleksandar Hemon, Monica McWilliams, Ebrahim Rasool, and Elif Shafak. This event was moderated by BBC's Razia Iqbal. Hosted in association with Beyond Conflict and B...
"THIS LAND:" An Evening with Salman Rushdie
March 18, 2021 20:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBOn March 18, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring author Salman Rushdie, as part of "THIS LAND" the 2021 Lannan Center Symposium. Moderated by BBC's Razia Iqbal. About Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels, most recently Quichotte, The Golden House, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. His book Midnight’s Children was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and the Best of the Booker in 2008. He is also the author of a book of stori...
"THIS LAND": A Reading Featuring Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
March 16, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBOn March 16, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, as part of "THIS LAND" the 2021 Lannan Center Symposium. Moderated by poet Carolyn Forché. About Joy Harjo In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo is an internationally known award-winning poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Harjo’s nine books o...
Readings & Talks Featuring Shane McCrae and Vievee Francis
February 09, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBOn February 9, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Shane McCrae and Vievee Francis. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Joshua Kim and Renny Simone. Moderated by Carolyn Forché. Shane McCrae is the author of seven books of poetry, including Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020); In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Animal T...
Readings & Talks Featuring Javier Zamora and Natalie Scenters-Zapico
January 26, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBOn January 26, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Javier Zamora and Natalie Scenters-Zapico. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Dennese Mae Javier and Nohora Arrieta Fernandez. Moderated by Carolyn Forché. Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). In 1999, Javier ...
Readings & Talks Featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and José Olivarez
November 17, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBOn November 17, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and José Olivarez. Introduced by Aminatta Forna and moderated by English Department Chair Ricardo Ortíz and Professor Elizabeth Velez. Carmen Giménez Smith is most recently the author of Be Recorder (2020), which was shortlisted for both the National Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Her 2013 collection Milk and Filth, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is...
Valeria Luiselli in Conversation with Aminatta Forna | 2020-2021 Readings and Talks Series
October 20, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBOn October 20, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Valeria Luiselli in conversation with Aminatta Forna. Introduced by Lakshmi Krishnan. Valeria Luiselli's recent novel, Lost Children Archive was a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and long-listed for the 2019 Booker Prize, and has been named a best book of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Vulture, and Time. Lost Children Archive sits beside Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, L...
Susan Choi in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan | 2020-2021 Readings and Talks Series
September 29, 2020 16:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBOn September 29, 2020 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Susan Choi in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan. Introduction by Aminatta Forna. Susan Choi is most recently the author of Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for fiction, and her first book for children, Camp Tiger (2019). Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. H...
Bernardine Evaristo in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan
May 26, 2020 20:00 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MBOn May 18, 2020, author and 2019 Booker Prize Winner Bernardine Evaristo was interviewed by NPR's Maureen Corrigan (The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University) via Zoom. We apologize for the quality of the sound during the interview, which was made under COVID-19 conditions. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.
John Murillo and Tina Chang I 2019-2020 Readings and Talks Series
March 02, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 46 MBOn February 25, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets John Murillo and Tina Chang. Introduction by Patricia Guzman. John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections Up Jump the Boogie (2010), which was a finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2020. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Court Green, Ninth Letter, and Ploughshares, and is forthcoming in A...
"Power and Language" with Caine Prize Winner Lesley Nneka Arimah
February 21, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBOn February 18, 2020, the Lannan Center presented "Power and Language," a special event with Caine Prize winning writer Lesley Nneka Arimah. Welcome: Aminatta Forna (Director of the Lannan Center, Georgetown University). Introduction: Scott Taylor (Director of the African Studies Program, Georgetown University). Lesley Nneka Arimah is the author of “Skinned,” winner of the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing; What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky (2017), her debut short story collect...
Terrance Hayes I 2019-2020 Readings and Talks Series
January 27, 2020 14:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBOn January 21, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Terrance Hayes. Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins (Penguin, 2018), a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018); How to Be Drawn (2015); Lighthead (2010), which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, which won the Kate Tufts Disc...
“Power and Language”: Juan Gabriel Vásquez in Conversation with Marie Arana
December 05, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBOn December 5, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a special event featuring author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. This event was introduced by Aminatta Forna and moderated by Marie Arana. Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels, including The Shape of the Ruins (2018), which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations (2013), a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling (2011), a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 Internati...
“Power and Language”: Juan Gabriel Vásquez in Conversation with Marie Arana
December 05, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBOn December 5, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a special event featuring author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. This event was introduced by Aminatta Forna and moderated by Marie Arana. Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels, including The Shape of the Ruins (2018), which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations (2013), a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling (2011), a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 Internati...
Ilya Kaminsky & John James | 2019-2020 Readings and Talks Series
October 03, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBOn September 24, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Ilya Kaminsky and John James. Introduced by Aminatta Forna. Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo, 2004). He has also co-edited and co-translated many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins) and Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James Books). His awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the...
Nikky Finney | 2018-2019 Readings and Talks Series
April 23, 2019 16:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBOn April 23, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Nikky Finney. Introduced by Aminatta Forna. Nikky Finney is the author of the poetry collections Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly Books, 2011), winner of the 2011 National Book Award; The World Is Round (InnerLight Publishing, 2003); Rice (Sister Vision, 1995); and On Wings Made of Gauze (W. Morrow, 1985). She has been a faculty member at Cave Canem, a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, and professor for...