New (Poetic) Works: An Intimate Reading with Hanif Abdurraqib

Award-winning and bestselling author Hanif Abdurraqib shares fresh, new works with an intimate audience.

Join us at Dissonant Works for New (Poetic) Works: An Intimate Reading with Hanif Abdurraqib.

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Alongside his week-long residency at Washington University - St. Louis, the award-winning, bestselling essayist, poet, and cultural critic is sharing new work with an intimate, community audience.

“Reverence is what differentiates him and his work, to me anyway. He can write about an Aretha Franklin song and make it a prayer. Or a sports arena and make it a church. And, as he does in his most recent book There’s Always This Year, he can write about watching the rise of LeBron James in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio and make it feel like witnessing a miracle.” - Rachel Martin, NPR

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