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Saeed Jones - How We Fight for Our Lives
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
Haunted and haunting, Jones' memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws listeners into his boyhood and adolescence - into tumultuous relationships with his mother and grandmother, into passing flings with lovers, friends and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another - and to one another - as we fight to become ourselves.
Blending poetry and prose, Jones has developed a style that is equal parts sensual, beautiful, and powerful - a voice that's by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.
Music by Toussaint Morrison
Due to unforeseen circumstances Kerri Miller will not be hosting the Talking Volumes at the Parkway Theater on Oct 9 and 16th. Kerri and MPR News have selected Brandt Williams to host these events.
MPR News correspondent Brandt Williams covers the city of Minneapolis with a focus on city and county government, public safety, courts and racial disparities.
Brandt has won regional and national awards for his work including a Silver Gavel, an Eric Sevareid, a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists and was named a finalist for the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award. He was also a 2004 Knight Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow in 2011 and 2015 and Brandt is a board member of Criminal Justice Journalists.
Before coming to MPR in 2000, Brandt was the executive editor of Insight News, the state's largest African American-owned newspaper.
When he's not doing journalism, Brandt plays guitar for his unappreciative cat and is an unapologetic sci-fi and fantasy book/tv/movie nerd.
Oct 9 - Saeed Jones with Brandt Williams and music by K.Raydio
Oct 16 - Tim O'Brien with Brandt Williams and music by Molly Maher
Kerri will be back to host the November events at the Fitzgerald Theater.