CCNY's Bernard Mendik Guest Professor Irvin Weathersby Jr. will read from his new book In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space on Wednesday, Oct. 22.
海角社区鈥檚 鈥檚 annual kicks off with author and Professor () in conversation with writer . on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 6:30p.m. in the Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316. Weathersby is the CCNY Bernard Mendik Guest Professor and will read from his work. The event is free and open to the public. Prospective MFA candidates will have an opportunity to meet Program Director Michelle Valladares at the event.
Weathersby is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA from The New School, an M.A. from Morgan State University, and a B.A. from Morehouse College. He received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation. is his first book.
The event is sponsored by the Bernard Mendik Fund.
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