M. NourbeSe Philip, the Toronto-based writer, theorist and lawyer who served as UWindsor writer-in-residence in 2008/09, will discuss her work in two public events on campus this week.
She will lead a conversation and reading on “Writing for the 21st Century,” Monday, October 28, at 7 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre’s second-floor boardroom. And she will conduct a reading and roundtable on her 2008 long poem Zong! Tuesday, October 29, at 2:30 p.m. in room 2101, Chrysler Hall North.
She has published three books of poetry: Thorns, Salmon Courage and She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks; two novels: Harriet’s Daughter and Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence; and several essay collections—among them Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture, Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel, and Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays.
She won the prestigious Casa de las Americas prize for She Tries Her Tongue and has garnered a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a McDowell Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy.
Philip’s long poem Zong! challenges the page-bound text as it continues to develop in performances, orchestrated workshops, and dramatized readings. Her appearance here is sponsored by the Department of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing.