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I suppose we are. Good evening. Im the president for the Atlanta History Center and its my pleasure to welcome you all tonight professor, author and po et patrick phillips. Patrick phillips received ph. D from nyu. He was a fullbright scholar and a National Endowment for arts fellow and recipient from the translation prize for translation of the works of danish poet. His 2015 poetry collection was a finalist for the book award. Even though we are in the presence of a distinguished poet, tonight phillips will be discussing his first work of nonfiction, blood at the root. A racial cleansing in a...

The famous sexist paragraph, that will evidently go on my tombstone which, you know what im talking about . Its the one that gets quoted in every review, unfortunately. Completely out of context of course. Number three was a meeting with boggs who is the facebook guy who runs ads and we had this sort of weird mafia boss file meetings and the fourth one was the story where i blew up the plumbing so is there any other theme that somebody wants in the reading that youre willing to propose . One of the characters in the book are standing here. I just looked around. Your freak out yourselves or not...

About is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a the book really began with a conversation in a taxicab about 10 years ago when my friend tosha treadway who some people think of as poet laureate of the us but at the time was not yet. We knew each other through the poetry world and 10 years ago we were at a professional conference and not tosha and i are old friends but she on this one night decided to challenge me because i grew up in Forsyth County g...

Throughout history. Offers Patrick Phillips and jason ward. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the southern festival of books and this particular session. Standing against oppression, racial historical violence. It is our pleasure to welcome two distinguished authors to our panel, doctor Patrick Phillips and doctor jason ward. We will have presentations by both Patrick Phillips and jason ward and after both panelists are finished with their presentations we would like to open it up to discussion. Following discussion, we will go