Next week, KU will host a Black Arts Poetry Conference, which will feature readings by poets Frank X. Walker and Kevin Young at the Black Archives of Mid-America. A poet and one of the conference organizers discuss the past, present and future of African American poetry.
Guests:
- Maryemma Graham, Distinguished Professor English at KU and founder, Project on the History of Black Writing
- Evie Shockley, poet and Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University
