Buxton Books is honored to host Gary Jackson and Len Lawson to celebrate their newest book, The Future of Black!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
“The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics’ characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of poetry in this genre―receiving wide literary and popular attention. This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets who have written verse within this growing tradition, including Terrance Hayes, Lucille Clifton, Gill Scott-Heron, and others. The anthology also features the work of artists such as John Jennings and Najee Dorsey, showcasing their interpretations of superheroes, Black comic characters, Afrofuturistic images from the African diaspora.”
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
Len Lawson is the author of Chime, the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You, and co-editor of Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race. He has received fellowships from Tin House, Callaloo, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collection Missing You, Metropolis, which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including Callaloo, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Crab Orchard Review.
This event is free and open to the public. Masks are highly encouraged as Buxton Books continues to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic with the rise of the Delta variant. If you are feeling sick or exhibiting flu-like symptoms, we kindly ask that you do not attend the event and take care of yourself.