Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town)”

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Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town)”

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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring William J. Harris, Tyrone Williams, and Aldon Nielsen.

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Jul 25, 2018

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Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.

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Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town)”

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