BOOKISH: anarchist authors, man-killers, and flower-power parties

POSTED: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 4:00 PM

Filed Under: Critical Mass Books

Each week, Nina Willbach puts together a rundown of book-centric events. This week: anarchist authors, man killers, and flower power parties!

Thursday, March 22

Brave Testimony

Traveling to a new land and assimilating to its culture can be challenging. Diasporic communities, however, are often sources of surprising and beautiful cultural hybrids, sites for the creation of new traditions, foods and even languages. Every year, UPenn hosts Brave Testimony, a literary series focusing on writers of the African diaspora. Tonight's featured guest, Christian Campbell, can trace his cultural influences all over the globe: Of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage, he studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar before getting a Ph.D. at Duke. As if this isn't impressive enough, he's been the recipient of several prestigious grants and fellowships, as well as winning the 2010 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for his poetry collection Running the Dusk.

6 p.m., free, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, writing.upenn.edu/wh

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