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Join a poetry reading and book signing with award-winning poet Major Jackson on Sunday, Feb. 18, at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Seating is limited, so register early.
If a music biography or cultural history is on your list for a gift or personal treat, here are some of the best from this year
Johnson narrates his collection of essays about racial injustice, the Black British experience, and reggae as a potent force
Ciarán O’Rourke (Jacobin) writes, “Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson calls his verse a ‘cultural weapon in the black liberation struggle.’ For half a century, his work has provided a peerless record of black British experience — offering a vital lesson in how oppression fuels the flame of defiance.” In the beginning,” recalls Linton Kwesi Johnson, “writing…
Yohann Koshy (The Guardian) reviews Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson, “A collection of the radical poet’s writing charts a groundbreaking career chronicling the black British experience.” One Saturday afternoon in 1972, Linton Kwesi Johnson was walking through Brixton market when he noticed three plainclothes police officers arresting a young man. Seeing their excessive use…