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Shayla Lawson @ Amherst Books

Monday February 27, 2023 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST

Shayla Lawson will read as part of the UMass Visiting Writers Series. Lawson is the poet in residence at Amherst College. She is author of the poetry collection, I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean & the forthcoming collection of essays, This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, & Being Dope.

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Shayla Lawson

Monday February 27, 2023 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST
Amherst Books 8 Main Street, Amherst, MA

Western MA

8:00pm EST

Visiting Writers Series: Shayla Lawson

Monday February 27, 2023 8:00pm - 10:00pm EST

UMass Amherst, Great Hall

Shayla Lawson is the author of A Speed Education in Human Being, the chapbook PANTONE and I Think I’m Ready to see Frank Ocean—and the forthcoming essay collection THIS IS MAJOR (Harper Perennial, 2020). She is also co-curator of The Tenderness Project with Ross Gay. A MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colony Fellow, Shayla Lawson is a member of The Affrilachian Poets & currently serves as Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College.

Speakers

Shayla Lawson

Monday February 27, 2023 8:00pm - 10:00pm EST
UMass Amherst, Great Hall Great Hall, Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way, University of Massachusetts

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