Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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GeNtry!fication: OR THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

Thu, October 11, 2018
Lunch Program
Chaun Webster

Poet and graphic designer Chaun Webster draws from an interest in the work of sign in graffiti, the layering of collage, and the visuality of text. These methods are used in Webster’s work to investigate race—specifically the instability of blackness and black subjectivities, geography, memory, and the body. Webster will discuss how these investigations engage the question of absence and how to archive what is missing from the landscape as neighborhoods once populated with familiar presences, dissolve in real time.  

 

Chaun Webster is a poet, publisher and graphic designer whose poetry finds its influences in the intersections of the Black Arts Movement and Jazz, the Concrete Poetry Tradition and Grafitti. Webster’s first book, Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime, was published in April 2018 by Noemi Press. 

Mr. Webster's Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Center for Writing and Public Discourse, the CARE Center, and the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, all at CMC.

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