Podcasts about sable venus

Pérola Sem Rapariga é a primeira de duas criações que formam o díptico que resulta do encontro entre a encenadora Zia Soares e a escritora Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. Pérola Sem Rapariga inspira-se na leitura de "Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems", de Robin Coste Lewis, e no arquivo fotográfico de Alberto Hensche, que fotografou várias pessoas escravizadas no Brasil.Uma das condições acordadas entre Zia Soares e Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida para a criação do espectáculo foi que "não haveria texto pré-escrito".Depois de um périplo por diferentes cidades portuguesas, Pérola Sem Rapariga tem a última das apresentações no Centro Cultural de Belém, em Lisboa, este domingo.Nos bastidores do CCB, a RFI falou com Zia Soares. O processo criativo de Pérola Sem Rapariga, o papel dos diferentes intervenientes na criação da peça e da actualidade desta, os projectos futuros com a Companhia Teatro Griot, ou que envolvem a Guiné Bissau, foram alguns dos temas da conversa com a encenadora.Pérola Sem Rapariga integra o Ciclo Abril Abriu, uma iniciativa do Teatro Nacional D. Maria II.O espectáculo está integrado na programação comemorativa dos 50 anos do 25 Abril.Ficha TécnicaTexto: Djaimilia Pereira de AlmeidaDirecção e encenação: Zia SoaresInterpretação: Filipa Bossuet, Sara Fonseca da GraçaArtista visual: Kiluanji Kia HendaInstalação e figurinos: Neusa TrovoadaDesign de iluminação: Carolina CarameloMúsica e design de som: XullajiAssistência à encenação de movimento: Lucília RaimundoVídeo promocional: António CasteloAssistência geral: Aoaní d'AlvaCo-produção Sowing_arts, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, no contexto da apap - FEMINIST FUTURES (projecto co-financiado pelo programa Europa Criativa da União Europeia)Parceria Abril Abriu Centro Cultural de BelémApoio Casa da Dança, Polo Cultural Gaivotas Boavista.

Danielle heads to Somerset House in London to speak with Aindrea Emelife, the Nigerian-British curator and art historian. Specialising in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on questions around colonial and decolonial histories in Africa, transnationalism and the politics of representation, her writing includes the book A Brief History of Protest Art, and in 2021, she was appointed to the Mayor of London's Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. She is currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary at the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), in Edo State, Nigeria. This summer she has curated an exhibition at Somerset House in London called Black Venus, which brings together the work of 18 Black women and non-binary artists to explore the othering, fetishisation and reclamation of narratives around Black femininity. The exhibition examines the complex narratives of Black womanhood through the influences of three perceived archetypes: the Hottentot Venus, the Sable Venus, and the Jezebel, and reframes stereotypical notions of black womanhood through the work of contemporary artists including Sonia Boyce, Carrie Mae Weems, Amber Pinkerton and Lorna Simpson. Aindrea talks about how she became interested in the history of art, and why she felt this was an important theme to address.  

When the poet Robin Coste Lewis discovered a trove of photographs under her late grandmother's bed, she recognized them not only as a document of her family's history during the Great Migration, but also as a testament to Black intimacy and ingenuity across generations. From studio portraits to snapshots, tintypes to Polaroids, these pictures provide the foundation of Robin's latest book, “To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness,” excerpts from which were published on newyorker.com. Robin Coste Lewis formerly served as poet laureate of Los Angeles, and her debut collection, “Voyage of the Sable Venus,” won the 2015 National Book Award for poetry.

Bongani Kona hosts Robin Coste Lewis for a discussion of her award-winning poetry collections To the Realisation of Perfect Helplessness and Voyage of the Sable Venus.  This capacious conversation includes a reckoning with mortality and a homage to the dead, brain damage and memory loss, poetry and metaphor, mentors, time as a tool of oppression, the life of Black Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, diaspora, Western art and visual culture, Robin's grandmother's photo album, unknowability and new ways of looking.  Bongani Kona is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Western Cape. He's also on the board of PEN South Africa.  Robin Coste Lewis won the National Book Award for her first collection of poetry Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (Knopf, 2015). Her second book, To the Realisation of Perfect Helplessness (Knopf, 2022) won the 2023 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection. Robin is the former poet laureate of Los Angeles. She holds a PhD in Poetry and Visual Studies from the University of Southern California In this episode we stand in solidarity with İlhan Sami Çomak. He has been imprisoned in Türkiye for 28 years. You can read more about his case here: https://ilhancomak.wordpress.com/. A selection of his poems Separated from the Sun was published in September 2022:  https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=223 As a tribute, Robin reads İlhan Sami Çomak's “I Give Praise to Flight” translated by Caroline Stockford and “There but for the Grace” by Wisława Szymborska. This podcast series is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa to promote open conversation and highlight shared histories.

Elizabeth and Larissa discuss how interpersonal trauma affects the way that we're able to show up for and be present in community.Referred to in the show:Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other PoemsElizabeth reads the poem “The Mothers," which you can read here:  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58757/the-mothersAlexis Hall, A Lady for a DukeDr. Marisa G Franco, PlatonicMusic by ZakharValaha from Pixabay Music by ZakharValaha from PixabayFollow us on Instagram @wonderminepodcast

Elizabeth and Larissa discuss how interpersonal trauma affects the way that we're able to show up for and be present in community.Referred to in the show:Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other PoemsElizabeth reads the poem “The Mothers," which you can read here:  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58757/the-mothersAlexis Hall, A Lady for a DukeDr. Marisa G Franco, PlatonicMusic by ZakharValaha from Pixabay Music by ZakharValaha from PixabayFollow us on Instagram @wonderminepodcast

Last week, Graywolf Press released Civil Service, the debut poetry collection by Jewish Currents Culture Editor Claire Schwartz. The book is a daring study of the violence woven into our world, from everyday encounters to the material of language itself. The poems unfold in three main sequences: a quartet of lyric lectures, a fragmentary narrative that follows a cast of archetypal figures named for the coordinates of their complicities with power—the Dictator, the Curator, the Accountant, and so on—and a series of interrogation scenes centered on a spectral, fugitive figure named Amira, who gives us a glimpse of another world. To celebrate the release of Civil Service, Schwartz spoke with Managing Editor Nathan Goldman and the book's editor at Graywolf Press, Chantz Erolin, about the book, as well as poems by Paul Celan and Edmond Jabès that deeply informed it. They discussed dispersed responsibility for state violence, thinking as feeling, and the political possibilities of poetry. Works Mentioned: https://bookshop.org/a/1530/9781644450949 (Civil Service) by Claire Schwartz “https://granta.com/lecture-on-loneliness/ (Lecture on Loneliness)” by Claire Schwartz “https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_MourningAndMelancholia.pdf (Mourning and Melancholia)” by Sigmund Freud “https://apogeejournal.org/2016/09/06/the-felt-house-that-moves-us-a-conversation-with-saretta-morgan/ (The Felt House That Moves Us: A Conversation with Saretta Morgan),” a conversation with Muriel Leung and Joey De Jesus “https://sahityaparikrama.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/0/9/120943912/the_concept_of_character_in_fiction_william_gass.pdf (The Concept of Character in Fiction)” by William H. Gass The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois “https://poets.org/poem/death-fugue (Death Fugue)” by Paul Celan, trans. Pierre Joris “https://poets.org/poem/stretto (Stretto)” by Paul Celan, trans. Pierre Joris “https://jewishcurrents.org/celans-ferryman (Celan's Ferryman),” a conversation between Fanny Howe and Pierre Joris Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis “https://lithub.com/robin-coste-lewis-black-joy-is-my-primary-aesthetic/ (Robin Coste Lewis: ‘Black Joy is My Primary Aesthetic,')” a conversation between Claire Schwartz and Robin Coste Lewis The Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop “https://tinhouse.com/podcast/rosmarie-waldrop-the-nick-of-time/ (Rosmarie Waldrop: The Nick of Time),” a conversation with David Naimon  Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, trans. Anthea Bell “https://nourbese.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gasp.pdf (The Ga(s)p)” by M. NourbeSe Philip “https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/fred-motens-radical-critique-of-the-present (Fred Moten's Radical Critique of the Present)” by David S. Wallace Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò “https://jewishcurrents.org/assuming-the-perspective-of-the-ancestor (Assuming the Perspective of the Ancestor),” a conversation between Claire Schwartz and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò “https://lithub.com/perennial-a-poem-by-claire-schwartz/ (Perennial)” by Claire Schwartz Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”

S6 E67: In this episode, meet poets Robin Coste Lewis, Phillip B. Williams, and Elisabet Velasquez. Step into the recording booth and learn how these authors' books of poetry and a novel-in-verse came to be. Plus, hear what each writer learned about themselves during the recording process. Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/250774/voyage-of-the-sable-venus/ Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/688039/mutiny/ When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/665231/when-we-make-it/

Een stilistisch meesterwerk. Een van de grootste, vernieuwende romans van de twintigste eeuw. Zo lovend wordt 'Mrs Dalloway' van Virginia Woolf vaak omschreven; men smult ervan. Doet het Boeken FM-panel dat ook? In deze aflevering schuift Marja Pruis aan om het te hebben over de roman en het leven van Virginia Woolf. PrijsvraagIn samenwerking met uitgeverij Rainbow geven we 3 exemplaren van Mevrouw Dalloway weg. Maak een tekening van Virginia Woolf, een vrije intepretatie van Mrs Dalloway of een collage of meme, en post die op Instagram met de tag @boekenfm. De leukste drie inzendingen ontvangen het boek. Insturen kan tot 28 maart. Boekentips Nederlandse dichters (de wat oudere generatie)Marja: M. Vasalis - Parken en woestijnen / Judith Herzberg / Esther Jansma / Mustafa Stitou - Varkensroze ansichtenEllen: Paul Snoek / Rutger Kopland / Hans Faverey Wat jongere auteurs: Tjitske Jansen / Ester Naomi Perquin / Alfred SchafferInternationaal: Wisława Szymborska / Tomas TranströmerEngels: Marie Howe - What the living do / Sophie Cabot Black / Robin Coste Lewis - Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems / Bloemlezingen van Poetry InternationalJoost: Hannah Sullivan - Three PoemsAutobiografieën Privédomein-reeksMarja: Gebrand Bakker - Jasper & zijn knecht + Knecht, alleen / Tove Ditlevsen - Kopenhagen Trilogie / Vivian Gornick - The Odd Woman and the City: A MemoirJoost: James Salter - Dwars door de dagen Ellen: Lev Tolstoj - Mijn biecht / Martha Graham - Blood Memory

In this episode, Vanessa and Alyssa review their 2020 in books and writing. Music by Ben Sulzinsky Instagram: @dearlitpod | @sea_of_sirens (Vanessa) Vanessa's Shop: https://seaofsirens.bigcartel.com/ Books Mentioned: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics) The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach (Wednesday Books) Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin) Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World) The Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis (Knopf) We Slept Here by Sierra Demulder (Button Poetry) Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books) Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (HarperCollins) Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press) Three Dark Crowns by Kendara Blake (Quill Tree Books) Exhalation by Ted Chiang (Knopf) Lovely War by Julie Berry (Viking Books for Young Readers) Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray, read by January LaVoy (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Kona Winds by Scott Kikkawa (Bamboo Ridge Press) Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (Beacon Press) The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (W. W. Norton Company) Vicious & Vengeful by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books) The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (Flatiron Books) In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books) The Diviners series by Libba Bray (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (Beacon Press) An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Akashic Books) Other Notes: BookCon + Book Expo closing Cons: YALL FEST, YALL WEST, NTTBF, Miami

For the season finale of Rough Draft, we’re welcoming poet Robin Coste Lewis. Robin’s blazing intellect and pitch-perfect way with words are no shocker. Her debut poetry collection Voyage of the Sable Venus won the National Book Award in poetry in 2015, the first time a debut collection by an African-American had won the prize (and the first time a debut had won since 1974). She brings it all in this conversation that touches on growing up in Compton and New Orleans, removing the “I” from her writing, and pursuing beauty. Featuring guest poetry performances from Marquesha Babers and Monique Mitchell! Watch Rough Draft and other Topic shows on the Apple TV app. Go to apple.co/topic to get your free 7-day trial. Follow Robin Coste Lewis @robincostelewis Follow Marquesha Babers @LADI3LYRIX Follow Monique Mitchell @mnqmtchll Rough Draft is a Topic Original Series. Hosted by Reza Aslan Executive Produced by Reza Aslan, David Andreone, Alfredo de Villa, and Safa Samieyazde’-Yazd. Executive Producers for Topic, Ryan Chanatry, Anna Holmes, and Gena Konstantinakos. Production aid from Russell Sperberg. Music and Theme by Jacob Snider. Sound by Sean Oakley. Editing and mixing by Will Stanton, with additional editing by Blake V. Twitter | @roughdraftreza Facebook | Rough Draft with Reza Aslan Follow Reza @rezaaslan Email us at roughdraftpodcast@topic.com For transcripts and full credits, head to https://www.topic.com/rough-draft-podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Paola and Janice are sleepy AF, but they get it together to talk about all things Venus. Paola breaks down Venusian ways, and Janice reads "Catalog 1: Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome” from Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis. Janice asks Paola to help analyze the poem by flexing her Art History knowledge. Everything works out, and nap vibes ensue. -- 00:00:00 Intro 00:10:02 - Venus 00:34:17 - Poem 00:55:12 - Shout-outs!

Amara's websiteAmara's instagram: @bradynotthebunchSkinny + White Aren't Character Traits, In This Paper I'll Explain on YouTubeJWS Online where Amara is teaching in July (July session begins July 6!)Experimental Bitch PresentsUpcoming reading of Amara's play, When We Were Gods (August 3 at 7pm)Freelance Artist Resources for COVID 19Pleasure Activism book by Adrienne Maree Brown Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power Audre Lorde Toni Cade Bambara Michaela Coel's work:I May Destroy You (on HBO)Chewing Gum (on Netflix) Miles G. Jackson's work:Hunters (On Amazon Prime)John Clarence Stewart's work: Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (on Hulu)What If (on Netflix)Ronald Peete's work:The I-Land on NetflixCommercial Theatre Institute Ken Davenport's Super Conference Producers Amara mentioned:Alia Jones-Harvey and Stephen C. ByrdRon SimonsBrian MorelandThe Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to West IndiesTDQ's WebsiteLearn more about the Make It Work workshop!Instagram: @thedreadedquestionLili's instagram: @lili_torreEmail: thedreadedquestionpodcast@gmail.com

Host Rachel Zucker speaks with Robin Coste Lewis, author of the 2015 National Book Award winning Voyage of the Sable Venus and poet laureate of Los Angeles, about when to say no, how to say no, wishing people would educate themselves on centuries old African American intellectual tradition before asking her to respond to obvious questions, professionalism, calling in, her position as Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, the pressure, power and exhaustion of having to offering historical correctives, migration, celebrating black culture, archives, writing work that spans 38,000 years, photography, narrative as a story filled with holes, the arctic, brain damage, being a “baby writer” in her fifties, the value of having to confront mortality, environmentalism, research as devotion, the difference between beauty and prettiness, Cave Canem, Gwendolyn Brooks, loneliness, why she’s going to burn her diaries, Henri Matisse, and much more.

In this final episode, Sonya's guest is Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus, Robin Coste Lewis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robin Coste Lewis is the poet laureate of Los Angeles and a writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. Her first collection Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems was widely praised by critics and honored with the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. Lewis discusses her poetry and reads from the collection. On November 16, 2017 Lewis gave a reading from Voyage of the Sable Venus as a guest of the Creative Writing Program.

 Following the Pulitzer prize-winning collection Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds’ newest book of poems, Odes, addresses and embodies love, gender, and sexual politics through the powerful and tender age-old poetic form of the ode. National Book Award winner Robin Coste Lewis’ stunning poetry debut, Voyage of the Sable Venus, considers the roles of desire and race in the construction of the self through lyrical meditations on the black female figure. Join us as these poets read from their intimate work and interrogate the structure of the body through its pleasures and sorrows, complex aesthetics and universal truths. 

The thirteenth episode of the Podcast for Social Research considers a recent work of poetry by Robin Coste Lewis (Voyage of the Sable Venus) and a recent work of poetic, theoretical memoir by Maggie Nelson (The Argonauts)—both of which deploy the metaphor of travel by ship. Rebecca and Yanyi converse about narrative and fragmentation in contemporary poetry, Coste Lewis's subversive genealogy of representations of the black female body, theories of voice and self, conceptual writing, and Nelson's meditations on queer family-making and love. Notations for this episode may be found here.

We’re laughing on the outside and crying on the inside this week.The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Brings Copyright Law Into the 21st Century - 00:59The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announced this week it will no longer charge copyright fees except for commercial uses (did you know artists can sue you for posting a photo of their work online?). Producer Aaron Scott explains why this is a big deal and speaks with Rauschenberg's son, who just so happens to be Portlander Christopher Rauschenberg, a photographer and co-founder of Blue Sky Gallery.Bullseye Glass Update - 5:05The air emissions story that began at two Portland art-glass makers has boiled over into state government and soon into the court room. Oregon’s top environmental administrator and an air quality regulator stepped down this week. Earthfix's Tony Schick stopped by to give us an update.The Electric Poetry of Robin Coste Lewis - 11:05Robin Coste Lewis won the National Book Award last year for her debut poetry collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus. The structure of the book's titular poem was guided by one simple rule: it is made up entirely of the titles, catalog entries and exhibit descriptions of artistic depictions of black female figures. Coste Lewis spoke with Think Out Loud's Dave Miller and read several poems. M. Ward Sings to His Baby (and opbmusic) - 22:44The latest release from M. Ward, More Rain, might sound like a Portland soundtrack, but it belies its name with sunny sounds of doo-wop and golden era AM radio sensibilities. The artist came by the OPB studios to play a few songs with a power backing band (REM's Scott McCoy, Mike Coykendall, and Alialujah Choir's Adam Selzer and Alia Farah), who he insists he did not find on Craigslist. The Book of Unknown Americans at Milagro Theater - 29:55The Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads this year focuses on Cristina Henríquez's lauded novel, The Book of Unknown Americans. Henríquez will be in town on Tuesday (we'll have excerpts for you next week), but in preparation, Milagro Theatre brought in a group of actors to read her work. We share one of our favorites.Sandra Cisneros at Wordstock - 34:48One of Henríquez's influences was Sandra Cisneros' 1984 novel, The House on Mango Street. The story revolves around a girl trying to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood and is one of the few novels from a Latina perspective to be embraced by the literary establishment. We interviewed Cisneros at Wordstock last November shortly after the release of her latest work, A House of My Own: Stories From My Life.Farewell, Sweet Comedy: Amy Miller and Sean Jordan - 41:15Stand-up veterans Sean Jordan and Amy Miller are leaving for Los Angeles this month but not before one final farewell at Aladdin Theater on Mar. 13. The comedians talk with April Baer about what they love about Portland and why they have to leave.Visit our website for videos and full interviews: http://www.opb.org/radio/article/m-ward-robin-coste-lewis-robert-rauschenberg-sandra-cisneros-amy-miller-sean-jordan

Ep 33 Diana Arterian & Robin Coste Lewis: The People We close out the show with a song from Minneapolis based musician Jesse Whitney from his new album Impossible Buildings. You can find out more about his music at http://www.jsswhtny.com - and the name of the track is Immense Rooms Collapsing Inwards. Diana Arterian is a poetry editor at Noemi Press and a managing editor and founding editor at the small press Ricochet. Her chapbook Death Centos came out from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2013. She'll be talking to us about some of her new work, a collection centered around the historical figure of Agripina the Younger. Robin Coste Lewis is a Provost's Fellow in the Creative Writing & Literature PhD Program at USC. A Cave Canem Fellow, she received her MFA from New York University's Creative Writing Program where she was a Goldwater Fellow in poetry. Her first book, Voyage of the Sable Venus from Knopf won the 2015 National Book Award in poetry.

Wednesday Reading Series Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, urban cyclist, and co-founder (with John Pluecker) of the language justice and language experimentation collaborative Antena. She publishes poems and translations with numerous small presses, including Action Books, Atelos, belladonna, Counterpath Press, Kenning Editions, Insert Press, Les Figues Press, Litmus Press, LRL Textile Editions, New Lights Press, Palm Press, Subpress, Ugly Duckling Presse, and in various DIY/DIT incarnations. Robin Coste Lewis is a Provost's Fellow in Poetry and Visual Studies at the University of Southern California. She is also a Cave Canem fellow and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities. She received her MFA from NYU in poetry, and an MTS in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University. A finalist for the International War Poetry Prize, the National Rita Dove Prize, and the Discovery Prize, her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Transition, VIDA, Phantom Limb, and Lambda, amongst others. She has taught at Wheaton College, Hunter College, Hampshire College and the NYU Low-Residency MFA in Paris. Fellowships and awards include the Caldera Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya. Her collection Voyage of the Sable Venus is forthcoming from Knopf. Born in Compton, California, her family is from New Orleans.

Two powerful poets read from their work and discuss how poetry can become an active tool for rethinking race in America. Robin Coste Lewis reads from her upcoming poetry collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus, which lyrically catalogs representations of the black figure in the fine arts, with Claudia Rankine—a poet whose incendiary new book, Citizen: An American Lyric—is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our often named “post-racial” society.*Click here to see photos from the program!