The BASH Reading Series

Join three of the country's most exciting young black writers introduced by the legendary Afaa Michael Weaver. Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's Open Interval was a 2009 National Book Award finalist. & she won the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for Black Swan. Thomas Sayers Ellis cofounded The Dark Room Collective & wrote Skin, Inc & Whiting award-winner The Maverick Room. Jericho Brown received the Whiting Writers Award, NEA, Radcliffe, & Bread Loaf fellowships & won the American Book Award for PLEASE.