SOLD OUT:Poetry Reading:

SOLD OUT:Poetry Reading: “At War With Oursleves” With American Poet Nikky Finney and Special Guests

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Special Tuesday Night Poetry Reading! Busboys and Poets and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland bring to the Busboys stage Nikky Finney’s new work, “The Battle Of and For the Black Face Boy,” which delves deep into our heritage and addresses what isn't being said about race today.

Join Finney and four award winning DC-based poets, Bomani Armah, KennyCarrol,Thomas "Vocab" Hill and Morgan "MoMo 4 Da Low-Low" Butler as they share their work focusing on issues black males face in today’s far-from-post-racialsociety. A joint project of The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, and Baltimore’s Center Stage, the State Theater of Maryland.

Co-sponsored by Split This Rock

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