92Y Podcast: From the Poetry Center Archive: Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid returns to the 92Y Poetry Center tonight to participate in “The Immigrant Experience: Becoming Americans”— an evening of readings from and discussion of the new Library of America anthology Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. She will be joined by fellow contributors Jessica Hagedorn, Norman Manea and Gary Shteyngart, as well as the anthology’s editor, Ilan Stavans, who will moderate the conversation. Their readings will include the work of Edward Said, Edwidge Danticat and Joseph Brodsky.
Ms. Kincaid last read at the Poetry Center in January of 2009, and today’s featured recording is an excerpt from that program, when she read from the short story Wingless and the novel My Brother.
In an ongoing effort to share with our readers some of the great literary moments which the Poetry Center has presented across the decades, this blog has begun to feature regular postings of archival recordings by some of the best writers of our time—many of whom, like Jamaica Kincaid, are returning this season. To purchase tickets to tonight’s event, please click here. For more information about the rest of the upcoming season, please click here. And for access to other recordings from the Poetry Center archive, please click here.
Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.
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