Join us for a reading and discussion with professor, musician, and award winning author Dr. Randall Horton. Dr. Horton creates art at the intersection of justice, racism, and incarceration.
Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction, and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He is a former member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders which received an American Book Award in Oral Literature and their musical project, The Baraka Sessions, was named best vocal jazz album by NPR. Randall’s latest collection of poetry {#289-128} is published by the University of Kentucky (2020) and received the American Book Award in 2021. His memoir Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays is published by Northwestern University Press. Randall is also cofounder of Radical Reversal, a music project with an emphasis on justice equity through the investigation of sound. Randall is a Professor of English at the University of New Haven.
photo credit to Ruvan Wijesooriya
