Join us for a special reading and discussion with poet Brad Walrond, featuring his new book, Every Where Alien.
“Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries to write poems that only he could write. These poems travel time and space to reveal truths that can be painful yet are always necessary.” —Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Tradition
The event will take place at Revolution Books, a space where the poetic spirit merges with the quest for truth and real revolution, aiming for a new framework for human emancipation.
We are excited to present Brad Walrond, a poet, author, and conceptual/performance artist. His newly released collection explores themes of blackness, queerness, and desire in New York City during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Every Where Alien offers an afro-futuristic, afro-surrealist journey through New York City’s New Black Arts Movement, the Black Rock Coalition, the Underground House Music-Dance community, and the HIV/AIDS Black Queer Artivists, as well as the House Ballroom Scene. In holographic odes, Walrond pays tribute to both living and deceased creative forces. He connects icons like James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Octavia Butler, Ntozake Shange, Amiri Baraka, and Greg Tate with contemporaries such as Larry Levan, Erykah Badu, Vernon Reid, and Yasiin Bey. The work also intertwines figures like Patti Smith, Kendrick Lamar, Kalief Browder, Willi Ninja, Jeff Mills, and Sarah Jones.
The book features stunning black-and-white illustrations and is the first publication from the collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press, dedicated to radical black imagination.
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