Community Conversation: Our Narrative is Each Other

Sun, Feb 26
The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building
After 2:30 PM matinee // Event Room, 2nd Floor – Memorial Arts Building

 

In Partnership with the COUNTER NARRATIVE PROJECT (CNP) 

“Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it” ― James Baldwin 

Join Charles Stephens, Executive Director of the Counter Narrative Project, and Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, for a discussion about the The Hot Wing King that explores narratives of Black gay and queer men in the South, the complexity of relationships between Black men, and the significant act of crowning in the play.  

This 30 minute post-show conversation is free with a ticket purchase to the matinee performance on February 26. 

 

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Find more information about The Hot Wing King here.

CHARLES STEPHENS 
Founder and Executive Director of the Counter Narrative Project (CNP)

Charles Stephens is a social entrepreneur, writer, and founder of the Counter Narrative Project (CNP). He is also the co-editor of the anthology Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam's Call, and has been published in Atlanta Magazine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Advocate, and Georgia Voice.   

Jericho Brown
JERICHO BROWN 
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English & Creative Writing and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University

Jericho Brown is author of The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. 

 

 

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