November 30, 2017
Ntozake Shange, playwright and poet, will be at the Free Library of Philadelphia on Thursday, Dec. 7, in conversation with Yolanda Wisher, the current poet laureate of Philadelphia.
Shange's first work "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf" helped reveal what it is to be of color and female in America.
The 1975 groundbreaking "choreopoem" combined 20 poems with dance moves and music. It was turned into a Broadway play and has since been adapted for the silver screen.
The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, Shange is also the author of many works of fiction.
At the Free Library, Shange will discuss her collection of poems in "Wild Beauty." According to the library, it includes "more than 60 original and previously collected poems in English and Spanish, as a call to action for a new generation of activists."
The author event is free to attend. It begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Parkway Central branch.
Thursday, Dec. 7
7:30 p.m. | Free
Free Library of Philadelphia Parkway Central branch
1901 Vine St.
