Robin Coste Lewis and Tyehimba Jess
Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Join The Phillips Collection and Folger Shakespeare Library as Robin Coste Lewis and Tyehimba Jess read their poetry in response to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series.
Jacob Lawrence, Panel 3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north (1940–41)
Event Details
Join The Phillips Collection and Folger Shakespeare Library as Robin Coste Lewis and Tyehimba Jess read their poetry in response to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series. Robin Coste Lewis is a Provost’s Fellow in Poetry and Visual Studies at the University of California; she is also a Cave Canem fellow and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. Also a Cave Canem fellow, Tyehimba Jess is an alumnus of New York University and received a 2004 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.