Ariana Benson X Black Pastoral

  • Starts: 7:00 pm on Thursday, November 9, 2023
  • Ends: 8:30 pm on Thursday, November 9, 2023
The BU Arts Initiative is proud to bring 2022 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Ariana Benson (she/they) to Boston University. Join ecopoet Ariana Benson as they explore the complex duality of Black peoples’ past and present relationship with nature in their debut collection Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023).
Speakers:
Ariana Benson
Audience:
public
Address:
Howard Thurman Center, 808 Commonwealth Avenue
Room:
The Commons - 205
Fees:
free
Deadline:
11/9/2023
Registration:
Ariana Benson is a southern Black poet born in Norfolk, Virginia. Benson has received the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, the Porter House Review Poetry Prize, and the 2021 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. Benson is the winner of a 2023 Ruth Lilly an
Contact Organization:
BU Arts Initiative
Contact Name:
Elana Harris
Contact Phone:
617-358-0489

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