"What Might Live in a Word and a Sentence" with Kevin Quashie

Thursday, April 6, 2023
The School for Temporary Liveness, Vol. 3
Slought
Philadelphia, PA

Supported by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania.

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What are the ways that surprise, estrangement, even consolation—even a small bit of that—live in sentences; and if such is the case, how does attending to sentences help us think about the work of black criticism in the world now?

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KEVIN QUASHIE teaches black cultural and literary studies and is a professor in the department of English at Brown University. Primarily, he focuses on black feminism, queer studies, and aesthetics, especially poetics. He is the author or editor of four books, most recently The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (2012) and Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (2021). Black Aliveness has been awarded two prizes: the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association (2022) and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation (2022). Currently, he is thinking about literary criticism as a form of estrangement and consolation or, said another way, he is thinking about the workings and potency of black sentences.

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