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Arlene Keizer's Poems for Beauford Delaney
Episode 6
Saturday, 15 November, 2025
Arlene Keizer, an Afro-Caribbean American poet and scholar, writes about the literature, lived experience, theory, and visual culture of the African Diaspora. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, she later earned an MA in English and Creative Writing (Poetry) at Stanford University and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery (Cornell UP), and her poems and articles have appeared in African American Review, American Literature, The Kenyon Review, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, PMLA, Poem-a-Day, TriQuarterly, and other venues. Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black, her collection of poems about the African American painter Beauford Delaney, won the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and was published in 2023 by the Kent State University Press. She is a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.Links:Arlene Keizer Arlene Keizer’s page at Pratt Institute Interview with Arlene Keizer at Speaking of Marvels “Canopy” in Poem-A-Day Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black at Kent State University Press Beauford Delaney Bio and artwork at Knoxville Museum of Art Bio and Artwork at the Smithsonian Bio and artwork at Studio Museum in Harlem Artwork at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery “Beauford Delaney in Knoxville” at Knoxville History Project Mentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser
