EDIT: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Due to an unforeseen medical issue, Ms. Sanchez has had to cancel her appearance. Read a statement from the Magic City Poetry Festival here.

Sonia Sanchez is a nationally-known poet, activist, and educator most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, as well as critical essays, short stories, plays, and children’s books. Sanchez has been a professor at eight universities and has lectured at over five hundred colleges in the United States, and she was influential in developing Black Studies and African American literature courses. She has received the American Book Award, Robert Frost Medal for poetry, Langston Hughes Poetry Award, and Harper Lee Award, among many others.

Book signing (and sales facilitated by Little Professor Bookcenter) to follow.

Though tickets are required, this event is FREE and open to the public. One of the events in the Magic City Poetry Festival, An Evening with Sonia Sanchez is sponsored by PEN America, AWC, Jefferson State Community College, UAB Department of English, Awesome Foundation, and the Alabama Humanities Foundation.