Mount Pleasant Library to Host Award-Winning Poet Falkner for Night of Performance Poetry
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Mount Pleasant Library in Providence is inviting residents to a night of performance poetry featuring Dr. Adam Falkner.
Falkner will offer a portrait of the journey into queer hood and masculinity in America.
"Adam Falkner is a poet with a spine of steel. We need his prophetic voice in these bleak times,” Dr. Cornel West.
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About Falkner
Falkner is a poet, educator, and arts & culture strategist.
He is the author of Adoption (winner of the 2017 Diode Editions Chapbook Award) and The Willies (Button Poetry, 2020), and his work has appeared in a range of print and media spaces including on programming for HBO, NBC, NPR, BET, in the New York Times, and elsewhere.
A former high school English teacher in New York City’s public schools, Falkner is the Founder and Executive Director of the pioneering diversity consulting initiative, the Dialogue Arts Project, in which capacity he develops and facilitates trainings for schools, companies, and cultural institutions across the nation.
Falkner has toured the United States as a guest artist, lecturer, and consultant for thousands of students, educators, and corporate employees, and was the featured performer at President Obama’s Grassroots Ball at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration.
He holds a Ph.D. in English and Education from Columbia University.
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