Hyde Park Arts Center series A: Quraysh Ali Lansana

Join us at the Hyde Park Art Center for this reading series dedicated to showcasing experimental writing in the US and the Midwest through readings, discussion and performance. Organized by Indiana University Northwest faculty member William Allegrezza, this series brings exciting writers to the Art Center to share their work. This month features Quraysh Ali Lansana.

Quraysh Ali Lansana is the author of They Shall Run--Harriet Tubman Poems (Third World Press, April 2004) and the poetry collection southside rain (Third World Press, 2000); a children's book, The Big World (Addison-Wesley, 1999); and a poetry chapbook, cockroach children: corner poems and street psalms (nappyhead press, 1995).

Quraysh earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the Creative Writing Program at New York University, where he was a Departmental Fellow. His most recent publication credits include Blood and Bone: An Anthology of Black Southern Writing, Off the Cuffs: A Police Poetry Anthology, Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry, and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam.

Event Location

Venue: 

Hyde Park Art Center 4833 Muller Meeting Room

Address: 

5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago
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Neighborhood: 

Hyde Pk/Kenwd