Â鶹´«Ã½ Series: Koppenhaver Literary Lecture
February 19, 2024
Start Time: 7:00 pm
Location:
Bayley Auditorium; Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center
Hanif Abdurraqib, poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio
Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest release, A Little Devil In America (Random House, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow.
His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017), was named a book of the year by Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest (2019) was a New York Times Bestseller, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was long listed for the National Book Award.
Contact Person:
Katie Warber (kwarber@wittenberg.edu)
Sponsoring Department:
Â鶹´«Ã½ Series