# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Poetry Reading with Kwoya Fagin Maples + Len Lawson, Hosted by Al Black
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 23 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us for a night of poetry with Kwoya Fagin Maples and Len Lawson as they read from their new books, Long Eye and New Names for Stars. This event will be hosted by poet and advocate Al Black.

Kwoya Fagin Maples is a poet and professor of creative writing at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Mend (University Press of Kentucky), a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, Cave Canem Fellow and co-editor of I Witness: An Anthology of Documentary Poetry (Wesleyan University Press).

Len Lawson is the author of Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane, Chime, and editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Born and living in South Carolina, he is Director of African American Studies and Assistant Professor of English at Newberry College.

https://allgoodbooks.com/events/4528420260523
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/columbia/poetry-reading-with-kwoya-fagin-maples-len-lawson-hosted-by-al-black/200029764273103
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, kentucky-derby
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Columbia
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 734 Harden St., Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29205
- **lat**: 33.99991
- **long**: -81.01594
- **full address**: 734 Harden St., Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29205

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Poetry Reading with Kwoya Fagin Maples + Len Lawson, Hosted by Al Black being held?
  - **A:** Poetry Reading with Kwoya Fagin Maples + Len Lawson, Hosted by Al Black takes place on Sat, 23 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Sat, 23 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm at 734 Harden St., Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29205.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Poetry Reading with Kwoya Fagin Maples + Len Lawson, Hosted by Al Black?
  - **A:** Poetry Reading with Kwoya Fagin Maples + Len Lawson, Hosted by Al Black is organized by All Good Books.

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