Ntozake Shange: Wild Beauty
Date and Time
Oct 23, 2018 6:30 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Oct 23, 2018 6:30 pm
450K
Please join us for a conversation with award-winning poet and playwright Ntozake Shange, who will share from her latest poetry collection Wild Beauty. From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and celebrated Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes an evocative and moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems.
In this stirring collection of more than sixty original and selected poems in both English and Spanish, Ntozake Shange shares her utterly unique, unapologetic, and deeply emotional writing that has made her one of the most iconic literary figures of our time.
With a clear, raw, and affecting voice, Shange draws from her experience as a feminist black woman in American to craft groundbreaking poetry about pain, beauty, and color. In the bestselling tradition of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, Wild Beauty is more than a poetry collection; it is an exquisite call to action for a new generation of women, people of color, feminists, and activists to follow in the author’s footsteps in the pursuit of equality and understanding. As TheNew York Times raves, “Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message.”
About the Author:
Ntozake Shange is a renowned playwright, poet, and novelist. Born Paulette Williams in 1948, she received her Bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and her Master’s degree from the University of Southern California. Her works include the Broadway-Produced and Obie Award-winning forcolored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Betsey Brown, Liliane, and Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Wild Beauty includes a complete Spanish text. It will be available for purchase at our bookstore.
