Casual Conversation: Book Discussion + Poetry Reading
Wed, Aug 02
|Sankofa Video, Books, & Café
Join us for Howard Alumna Renia White in conversation with Maria Fernanda on Renia's new book of poetry Casual Conversation!


Time & Location
Aug 02, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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About The Event
About the book:
A Blessing the Boats Selection with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay
Renia White’s debut poetry collection strikes up a conversation, considering what’s being said, what isn’t, and where it all comes from. From her vantage point of Black womanhood, White probes the norms and mores of everyday interactions. In observations, insights, and snippets of speech, these poems look to the unspoken thoughts behind our banter, questioning the authority of not only the rule of law but also of our small talk itself—the concepts we have accepted and integrated without pause.
Casual Conversation imagines a new way of knowing, a way that encourages us to think through how we structure and stratify ourselves, inviting something strange and other to spill out. White challenges us to question whether there is anything casual about this life, even as she invites us to consider other logics and to…
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