POSTPONED: Tiana Clark

Tiana Clark is unable to appear in Madison as scheduled on Tuesday, March 12 due to illness.  We are working to bring her to the four-day Wisconsin Book Festival in October.  We apologize for the inconvenience, and wish Ms. Clark a speedy recovery.

press release: For prize-winning poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can’t Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because the speaker in this triptych book cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past—she will always see blood on the leaves.