JULIAN RANDALL is a Living Queer Black poet from Chicago. His poetry and essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry,and Vibe. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi. His first book, Refuse: Poems, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He has previously worked as a youth mentor, teaching writing workshops to children on house arrest. He is the author of Shook (Henry Holt and Co. BYR); The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit; and the Pilar Ramirez duology, The Chainbreakers.
In Person
- Nov. 20 - 10:00am
- 11:00am
Free