Empty Bottle Book Club discusses '1919: Poems' by Eve L. Ewing (Online)

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EMPTY BOTTLE BOOK CLUB discusses '1919: Poems' by Eve L. Ewing. This month's meeting will be held on Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81916722731).

About '1919: Poems':

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the “Red Summer” of violence across the nation’s cities, has shaped the last century but is unfamiliar or altogether unknown to many people today. In 1919, her second collection of poems, Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event—which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost five hundred injuries— through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history, illuminating the thin line between the past and the present.