Williams College to Host Fred Moten for Poetry Reading

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., September 15, 2015—Poet and scholar Fred Moten will read from his works on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at Williams College. This event will take place at 7 p.m. in Adams Memorial Theatre in the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance. It is free and open to the public.

Moten received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and primarily focuses on the field of black studies. He works at the intersection of performance, poetry, and critical theory. His works include the poetry collections B Jenkins, Hughson’s Tavern, and The Feel Trio, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent book of poems is The Little Edges. He is also the author of critical works In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition and The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study.

Previously, Moten has served as a critic-in-residence at the Performing Arts Festival at the House of World Cultures, Berlin; a visiting scholar and artist-in-residence at Pratt Institute; and the Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, to name a few of his positions. He is the co-founder and co-publisher of a small literary press called Three Count Pour. In 2009, the Poetry Society of America recognized him as one of ten New American Poets.

This event is sponsored by the Department of English.

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