Hafizah Augustus Geter with Kiese Laymon
26 SEPTEMBER 2022 — monday
City Lights Books presents poet Hafizah Augustus Geter, Un-American, finalist for the NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award, discussing her new memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin, a groundbreaking account of the poet's origin story as the queer daughter of a Muslim Nigerian immigrant and a Black American artist, in conversation with essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon, Heavy: An American Memoir, winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events/hafizah-augustus-geter)