This week in the literary world we have a reading with two renown poets and an interactive conversation session with a novelist and New York journalist. Marilyn Hacker and Margo Berdeshevsky will be reading from their selected work at Beyond Baroque while Gary Younge and Danzy Senna will discuss their selected works at the Hammer Museum.

Reading at Beyond Baroque with Marilyn Hacker and Margo Berdeshevsky

Friday March 7th at 7:30pm
681 Venice Blvd. Venice CA (Map)
(310)822-3006

Admission: Free

• MARILYN HACKER is the prize-winning author of eleven books of poems, most recently Essays on Departure: New and Selected Poems and Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002. Her previous books include First Cities: Collected Early Poems 1960-1979; Squares and Courtyards; Winter Numbers; Selected Poems, 1965-1990; and Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons. She is also a translator of contemporary French poetry.

• MARGO BERDESHEVSKY’s debut poetry collection is But a Passage in Wildernes. Her writing has appeared in: Poetry International, Pool, Nimrod, Rattapallax, ACM, and Women’s Studies Quarterly many more. She wrote Tsunami Notebook about a survivors’ clinic in Aceh. The Ghosts of Versailles premiered at the Parisian Galerie Benchaieb

Conversations with Danzy Senna and Gary Younge at the Hammer Museum

Thursday March 6th 7pm
10899 Wilshire Blvd (Map)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 443-7078

Admission: Free

• Danzy Senna’s debut novel, Caucasia, was the winner of the BOMC Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and of a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the year. Born to a black father and white mother, Senna continues to explore familiar territory in her second novel, Symptomatic, and examine the complicated topics of race in America. Senna also writes essays on issues of race, identity, and gender.

• Gary Younge, the Alfred Knobler Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the New York correspondent for The Guardian and the author of No Place Like Home: A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South and Stranger in a Strange Land: Travels in the Disunited States. He is also a contributor to The Nation.

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