THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS has been called a “frank, feminist, and unforgettable read” by Deesha Philyaw, a “staggering and ambitious saga” by Publishers Weekly, and “the great American novel” by Jacqueline Woodson. We’re thrilled to host a conversation between Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Angela Jackson-Brown, both of whom have ties to Alabama, to celebrate the launch of one of the summer’s most anticipated novels.

The event is free, but registration is required.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. She is the author of five poetry volumes and has published writing in The Fire This Time, Kenyon Review (where she is Critic at Large), Iowa Review, and more. For her latest volume of poetry, The Age of Phillis, Jeffers was longlisted for a National Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection. Honorée was recently named the winner of the 2021 United States Artists Fellowship and has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award. She teaches creative writing and literature at University of Oklahoma.

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Angela Jackson-Brown is an award winning writer, poet and playwright who teaches Creative Writing and English at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the Spalding low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing. She is the author of the novel Drinking From A Bitter Cup and has published in numerous literary journals. Her book of poetry called House Repairs was published by Negative Capability Press in the fall of 2018, and in the fall of 2019, she directed and produced a play she wrote called Still Singing Those Weary Blues. Her new novel, When Stars Rain Down, was published by Harper Collins in April 2021. Angela was recently awarded, by the Alabama Library Association, the Alabama Authors Award in poetry.