On April 5, 2017 M. Nourbese Philip reads her work and participates in a moderated discussion with poetry scholar Sonya Posmentier, author of the New York Times essay "A Language for Grieving," and Ibrahima Seck, director of research for the Whitney Plantation Museum of Slavery. They discuss questions of mourning and imagination, the significance of an architecture (or poetics) of grief, and the challenges of working with one-sided historical archives. How might the archive (as a site of memory) provide (or fail to provide) an architecture for grief?
