As we stay home to protect each other during the third wave, we’re excited to present a spring series of live-streamed readings, artist talks, and conversations, beginning on Thursday, April 29th at 7pm CDT with a reading from Harmony Holiday.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH.

Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, director, and the author of four collections of poetry, Negro League Baseball, Go Find Your Father/ A Famous Blues, Hollywood Forever, and A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom. She founded and runs Afrosonics, an archive of jazz and everyday diaspora poetics and Mythscience, a publishing imprint. Harmony studied Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and taught for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. She received her MFA from Columbia University and has received the Motherwell Prize from FenceBooks, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a NYFA fellowship and a California Book Award. She’s currently completing her next collection of poems M a à f a (summer 2021) and a collection of essays Love is War for Miles. She’s also working on a biography of singer Abbey Lincoln. Her work is deeply influenced by Black music, and collective improvisation with Black people, in the tradition of her father, who was a Northern Soul singer and songwriter and introduced her to artists he worked with like Ray Charles, The Staples Singers, and Bobby Womack.

Livestream here and on Facebook.

THURSDAY, APRIL 29th at 7:00 pm CDT