The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program presents “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing: Poetry & Protest,” an evening of readings featuring Pultizer Prize-winner Tyehimba Jess and Marina Carreira, J.C. Todd, Vincent Toro and Rashad Wright. This event is offered as part of the national Poetry Coalition’s annual programming on a theme of social importance.
The event will be held on Thursday, March 19 at 7 p.m. in the Parish Hall of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 70 Maple Ave, Morristown, NJ. Admission is free.
Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
Marina Carreira is the author of Save the Bathwater and I Sing to That Bird Knowing It Won’t Sing Back.
J. C. Todd is author of What Space This Body, and The Damages of Morning, a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist. Beyond Repair is forthcoming in 2020.
Vincent Toro’s Stereo.Island.Mosaic was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. His second collection, Tertulia, is forthcoming in June 2020.
Rashad Wright is the poet laureate of Jersey City, New Jersey.