Hope Wabuke, Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor in the Department of English, reads from her new book of poetry, Blood on the Leaves, on Nov. 4 at 5:30 p.m. at Francie and Finch Bookshop.
The book, which will be published by Boa Editions on Nov. 3, is described as a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural world. At once a site of refuge and rupture, nature emerges as both witness to generational trauma and a space of beauty, survival, and fierce possibility.
Wabuke is the author of several books and has been published in Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, and others.
