Poetry off the Shelf: Angel Nafis & Shira Erlichman
61 West Superior Street
Free admission
Angel Nafis, author of BlackGirl Mansion (2012), is a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is a recipient of the Millay Colony residency and a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. With poet Morgan Parker she is The Other Black Girl Collective, a Black Feminist poetry duo that tours internationally.
Shira Erlichman is a poet, musician, and visual artist. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she was awarded a residency by the Millay Colony and the James Merrill Fellowship by the Vermont Studio Center. As a musician she has performed her experimental pop-folk across the US. Her new album Subtle Creature premiered in October 2016 in BUST Magazine.
Cosponsored with Young Chicago Authors
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