Keenan Norris and Khiry Malik
Mon. Nov. 25 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street at Sacramento Poetry Center
Host: Tim Kahl
Keenan Norris’ novel Brother and the Dancer is the winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award and will be published by Heyday Books in November 2013. He holds an MFA from Mills College and a PhD from the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include urban literature and the publishing industry. He teaches English, African-American Literature and promotes the AFFIRM program at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California. His work, both fiction and non-fiction, has appeared in the Santa Monica, Green Mountains, and Evansville Reviews, Connotation Press, Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire, and BOOM: A Journal of California. He is also the editor of Scarecrow Press’s upcoming collection of critical essays Street Lit: Popularity, Controversy & Analysis and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Khiry Malik was a member of the 1st ever Sacramento Slam Team 2002 (NPS 2002 Minneapolis), coach of slam team 2003, and is coach and slam master for team 2004.
He is the founder and host of the Mahogany Urban Poetry Series every Wednesday night in Sacramento. Khiry is an accomplished performance poet who has shared the stage with: KRS ONE, Erykah Badu, Dead Prez, Hieroglyphics The Last Poets, Ursula Rucker, Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore, Taalam Acey, Mike McGee and many other great poets, mc’s, and performers.
His poetry reflects on life as it is, political, humorous, tragic, spiritual, and ironic. He is the author of several chap books and has a compilation CD.
