Fri, Nov 15
|Carver Museum
An Evening with Morgan Parker and Lynne Thompson
Join us for an incredible evening of poetry and prose at the Carver Museum. Light reception will be provided.
Time & Location
Nov 15, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
About the event
Join us for a soul-stirring evening of poetry and verse with poet, essayist, and novelist Morgan Parker and Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson.
In Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For and Lynne Thompson's Blue on a Blue Palette, the historical experiences of Black women drive the two writers' explorations. Morgan's essays, deeply intimate, witty, and personal, trace her experience in therapy as a way to examine racial consciousness and how America's cultural history has affected Black women in particular. Thompson's collection of poems, rooted in the jazz tradition and encompassing various shades of blue, traverses the multiplicities within the condition of women throughout history. These writers deconstruct what it means to survive and find joy within landscapes that threaten.
Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and…