Mechanics’ Hall and Print: A Bookstore co-present a conversation with award-winning authors Tiana Clark & Maya Williams in celebration of Clark’s newest poetry collection.

SCORCHED EARTH moves between ruins and radical love—fragility and tenderness in the wake of divorce transform and expand into virtuosic stanzas, full of ache and sweetness. From ekphrastic poems on Kara Walker, to a standout series on the first Black Bachelorette, these stanzas shift between reverence and irreverence, hold institutional and historical pains alongside sensuality and queer, Black joys. This collection is steeped in rebellious abundance, intertextuality, a penchant for epigraphs, and the big emotions of the millennial psyche.

From a generational voice that “earns a place among the pantheon of such emerging Black poets as Eve L. Ewing, Nicole Sealey, and Airea D. Matthews” (Booklist), SCORCHED EARTH is a transcendent anthology for our times.

There will be an audience Q&A and book signing following the conversation.

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