Tuesday, July 15th at 7 pm
Kevin Powell, No Sleep Till Brooklyn (brownstonebooks.com)
On Tuesday, July 15th, Kevin Powell will read from his book of poetry from his early days as a slam poetry artist and writer. Read more about this compelling work:
No Sleep Till Brooklyn is a searingly honest collection at once powerful and disturbing. Written between 1989 and 2008, the poems encompass Powell's early career as a slam poet when he regularly participated in slams, open mics, featured readings, and as the original cast member of MTV's "Real World," to a poet operating in a private sphere, away from what is commonly called "the scene." Within this rich weave of musings, confession, and sometimes painful introspection, he confronts such issues as racism, black self-hatred, gender violence, and his own anguished revelations about sex, love, and misogyny. Powell samples the sights and sounds and scenarios of American life, then reshapes them into a provocative soundtrack for our times.
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