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Saturday, August 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT

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The Muse Writers Center
2200 Colonial Avenue, #3
Norfolk, VA 23517 United States

American Reverie Book Reading with Synnika Lofton and Donnelle McGee

Join us tonight 7-8pm EST to hear Synnika and Donnelle read from their recently published collaborative poetry collection American Reverie. This virtual reading will be streamed here and on Facebook Live!

Watch below or on Facebook!

Read an interview in the Los Angelas Review of Books with Synnika and Donelle about American Reverie!

Synnika Alekzander-Chizoba Lofton is an award winning poet, educator, and recording artist. Lofton is the author of 17 books
and more than 170 spoken word albums and singles. He is a Literature instructor at Chesapeake Bay Academy and a lecturer at Norfolk State University. Read more about Synnika here: https://www.blacklionmuzik.com/synnika-lofton

Donnelle McGee is the author of the novel GHOST MAN (Sibling Rivalry Press), SHINE, a novella, (Sibling Rivalry Press), and NAKED, a collection of poetry (Unbound Content). He earned his MFA from Goddard College. He is a faculty member at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. His work has appeared in Controlled Burn, Colere, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Home Planet News, Iodine Poetry Journal, Permafrost, River Oak Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Willard & Maple, among others. His work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Donnelle lives in Turlock, California.

“Like musicians trading solos, McGee and Lofton’s voices vibrate with energy, building, jamming, pulsing across urban landscapes, imploring the spirit to stand up, wake up, and feel the trembling complexities of self and culture. This moving collection echoes Whitman and Hughes infused with the power and relevance of Zach De La Roche, poems standing boldly on the street corners of contemporary America.”

– Theodore Shank, author of Follow the Flickering Down

You can buy American Reverie from Prince Books!