Roger Bonair-Agard
Roger Bonair-Agard
Reading Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011
- Welcome
- Introduction
- "allegory of the black man at work in a synagogue"
- "The all black penguin speaks: 17 facts you did not know about me"
- "how to write a love poem"
- "A Time of Polio"
- "earth and God"
- "Paesano"
- "Ode to the man who leaned out the truck to call me nigger"
- "contradiction (a ghazal for L'il Wayne)"
- "American History looks for light"
- "Roger, 9, pens a note for his adult self--Winnipeg, 1977"
- "Atonement"
- "The guard in juvie tries to hip some unruly kids as to what's in store"
- "the tragicomedy of the black boy blues; or a hip-hop negretto; or the boy became black at JFK"
Welcome-5712
by Cybele Knowles
Introduction-5713
by Logan Phillips
"allegory of the black man at work in a synagogue"-5714
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Gully. New York: Cypher Books, 2010.
"The all black penguin speaks: 17 facts you did not know about me"-5715
Published version bears the title "The all black penguin speaks."
Annotation:
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Bury My Clothes. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013.
"how to write a love poem"-5716
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Bury My Clothes. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013.
"A Time of Polio"-5717
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Bury My Clothes. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013.
"earth and God"-5718
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Gully. New York: Cypher Books, 2010.
"Paesano"-5719
Uncollected.
"Ode to the man who leaned out the truck to call me nigger"-5720
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Bury My Clothes. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013.
"contradiction (a ghazal for L'il Wayne)"-5721
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Gully. New York: Cypher Books, 2010.
"American History looks for light"-5722
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Gully. New York: Cypher Books, 2010.
"Roger, 9, pens a note for his adult self--Winnipeg, 1977"-5723
Published version bears the title "Roger, Chicago, 2011, pens a note for his 9-year-old self, Winnipeg, 1977." Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Bury My Clothes. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013.
"Atonement"-5724
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Gully. New York: Cypher Books, 2010.
"The guard in juvie tries to hip some unruly kids as to what's in store"-5725
Uncollected.
"the tragicomedy of the black boy blues; or a hip-hop negretto; or the boy became black at JFK"-5726
Bonair-Agard, Roger. Gully. New York: Cypher Books, 2010.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
Roger Bonair-Agard delivers a dynamic performance of poems from his second book, Gully (2010), as well as new work.
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