Virtual Poetry Workshop with Morgan Parker

August 9th from 5:00pm-6:30pm, BLAC will be presenting our next event, a Virtual Poetry Workshop with Morgan Parker!!

Morgan Parker shared poems and encouraged attendees to write their own through various prompts. After the event, attendees received a free copy of Morgan’s book of poems, Magical Negro.

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.”