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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Ayokunle Falomo
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\nWednesday\, Sep 18th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: AYOKUNLE FALOMO\, author of Autobiomythography of .\nAutobiomythography of sifts through Nigerian stories and mythologies\, both inherited and invented\, to explore the self\, family\, and nationhood. \nAYOKUNLE FALOMO is Nigerian\, American\, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books\, 2024)\, AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press\, 2022—finalist for Texas Institute of Letters’ Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry)\, two self-published collections and African\, American (New Delta Review\, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center\, MacDowell\, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program\, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry\, his work has been anthologized and widely published. \nAutobiomythography of \n“Mythmaking serves to create a bridge between what the human mind can understand and what we yet have language for. Yet here in this visually lush and lyrically dexterous collection of poems\, Falomo offers his readers work that bends and reimagines the limits of language\, blends the Divine with the digital present\, contemporary music with the voices of the past while the speaker traverses the friction between their American & Nigerian heritage.”\n—I.S. Jones\, author of Spells of My Name \nSeptember 2024 \nISBN: 9781949944655
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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