Texas Book Festival Panel - Torch Presents: A Conversation with Morgan Parker and 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. Join Parker and Thompson in this conversation presented by Torch Literary Arts as they discuss exploring the mental conditions of women in America.

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort…