Cynthia Manick

Poet| Storyteller| Curator

Cynthia Manick - Poet and Storyteller

Author of No Sweet Without Brine, Editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry, and Author of Blue Hallelujahs; Curator of Soul Sister Revue

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KGB Bar - George David Clark, Tomás Q. Morín, and Cynthia Manick!

George David Clark is an assistant professor at Washington & Jefferson College. His first book, Reveille (Arkansas, 2015), won the Miller Williams Prize and his more recent work can be found in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Image, The New Criterion, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He edits the journal 32 Poems and lives in Washington, Pennsylvania with his wife, Elisabeth, and their four young children.

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of Patient Zero and A Larger Country, winner of the APR/Honickman Prize. He translated Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu and with Mari L’Esperance, he coedited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine.

Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Fine Arts Work Center, Millay Colony, Hedgebrook, Poets House, and the Vermont Studio Center. A winner of the 2016 Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry and a 2017 recipient of the Barbara Memorial Fund Award for Poetry; Manick serves as East Coast Editor of the independent press Jamii Publishing and is Founder and Curator of the reading series Soul Sister Revue. Her poem «Things I Carry Into the World» was recently made into a film by Motionpoems, a organization dedicated to video poetry. Manick’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, African American Review, Callaloo,The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Earlier Event: October 11
Poetry in Translation
Later Event: December 1
Cave Canem and the Brooklyn Museum