Tyehimba Jess on “Olio” (One Book One Bronx)

February 23, 2021 — Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess joins the One Book One Bronx program to discuss his second book, “Olio” (Wave Books, 2016), which weaves together sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Hosted by One Book One Bronx and Lehman College, City University of New York.

This video is part of LIFT EVERY VOICE, a nationwide celebration of African American poetic traditions presented by Library of America in partnership with the Schomburg Center and made possible with support from The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Emerson Collective.

For more information about the Lift Every Voice project, please visit:
https://www.africanamericanpoetry.org/

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https://onebookonebronx.com/