Poetry As Protest: Dr. Malcolm Tariq

Please join us for a night of poetry and conversation on Juneteenth with Dr. Malcolm Tariq. Malcolm will read from his stunning debut "Heed the Hollow." This event will serve as the inaugural poetry reading in a new Poetry As Protest series from the Royall House and Slave Quarters.

"Heed the Hollow" tells of a heritage anchored to the landscape of the coastal South, to seawalls shaped by forced labor, and to the people "marked into the bottom / of history where then now / we find no shadow of life." From that shadow, the voices in these poems make their own brightness, reclaiming their histories from a language that evolved to exclude them. Purchase "Heed the Hollow" from your local bookstore via Bookshop: www.bookshop.org/books/heed-the-hollow-poems/9781644450093

Celebrated annually on June 19th, Juneteenth is an American holiday commemorating Union general Gordon Granger's announcement in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free. This announcement put into effect the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been issued more than two and a half years earlier, on January 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln.

We are honored to host this event in collaboration with our Shaw 54th Memorial Restoration committee partners: Museum of African American History - Boston and Nantucket, Boston African American National Historic Site, Friends of the Public Garden, and the City of Boston.

Attendance is free, but registration is required: www.register.gotowebinar.com/register/2224997426256965134

About the Author:

Malcolm Tariq is a poet and playwright from Savannah, Georgia. He is the author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf Press, 2019), winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and is a 2020-2021 playwright resident with the Liberation Theatre Company. A graduate of Emory University, he has a PhD in English from the University of Michigan. Malcolm lives in Brooklyn, New York City, where he is the Programs and Communications Manager for the Cave Canem Foundation, a home for Black poetry.

About the Interlocutor:

Camara Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Harvard University where she writes about poetry, care, gender, sexuality, Black feminisms, and Transnational women of color feminisms. Her interdisciplinary study draws methods and reading practices from both history and literary studies to ask directly what can historians learn about doing history from poetry? Her poetry has been published in The Adroit Journal, Bedfellows, and The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks as well as circulated in a collection curated by poet Laynie Browne titled Solidarity Texts.

For more information visit: https://royallhouse.org and https://friendsofthepublicgarden.org/shaw54th/

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