The Future is now: a celebration of Afrofuturism and Black poetics
Four poets, all featured in the anthology The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair Press, 2021), will read their work and discuss how their poetics intersect African diasporic traditions, the Black speculative, and formal experimentation. Through the lens of Afrofuturism, these poets will demonstrate how persona poems can reclaim mainstream and Eurocentric narratives and heroes, and how imagining Black futures make real Black life today, reminding us the ordinary can be extraordinary, or as June Jordan once said, make clear the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America.
