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