Tracking Down Our Roots: A Conversation with Ishmael Reed
Tracking Down Our Roots: A Conversation with Ishmael Reed
Join novelist, poet, and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Ishmael Reed for a conversation on the empowering role of art as a vehicle for reclaiming elements of African spirituality and culture.
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The Morgan Library & Museum online
November 18, 2020 | 6:00 pm
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Ishmael Reed
Novelist, poet, and MacArthur Fellowship recipient

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The Morgan Library & Museum
New York, NY

About This Event

Join novelist, poet, and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Ishmael Reed for a conversation on the empowering role of art as a vehicle for reclaiming elements of African spirituality and culture. Reed has explored this theme in his writing, including in his collaboration with Betye Saar on A Secretary to the Spirits in the 1970s. He is the author of more than thirty titles including the acclaimed novel Mumbo Jumbo, as well as non-fiction, plays, and poetry. Six collages from the Morgan collection that Betye Saar made in response to Reed’s poems are currently on view in the exhibition, Betye Saar: Call and Response.  

Image: Ishmael Reed / photo by Jason Henry