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Mapmakers Alumni Institute Reading and Discussion

Telling the stories of our ancestors can be an act of writing into unwritten spaces–culture, geography, generations, identity, etc. "A means to uncover and restore experiences and life stories that might otherwise remain absent from the historical archive" (Marianne Hirsh). How does that influence your use of language and how you write about lineage? How does writing into those unwritten spaces through lineage contribute to the larger cultural narrative or public memory of a people?

Every Time I Talk About....Black Voices in a Time of Change at the Lied Center - Full Event

Drawing on the poetry of the late poet Lucille Clifton, UNL Poets will celebrate the long history of Black poets bringing often uneasy truths to the heart of America.

Conceived, curated and directed by Kwame Dawes, the poets, in conversation with music and visual art, will perform their own compositions and selections of poems by Lucille Clifton whose words continue to resonate in our culture today.

"if i stand at my window" lucille clifton

A Juneteenth reading with Jourdan Imani Keith, Ebo Barton, Saddiq Dzukogi, Gary Copeland Lily and Yashika Graham.

"the thirty eighth year" by Lucille Clifton

Reading with fellow Storyknife residents: Carolyn Forché, Pamela Uschuk, Monica Macanstantos, Emily Hoang, Erica Watson.