SCHOOL VISIT: An Afternoon of Poetry with Nate Marshall
Marshall’s event will be a school visit only.
Award-winning writer, rapper, educator, editor and UW-Madison English professor Nate Marshall will visit two Madison Metropolitan School District high schools in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. He will spend the afternoon discussing poetry as performance and workshopping writing poems with students. Nate will also do a talk back, sampling some new material for his forthcoming poetry collection.
Nate Marshall
Nate Marshall is an award-winning writer, rapper, educator, and editor. He is the author of the poetry collection Finna (One World / Penguin Random House), recognized as one of the best books of 2020 by NPR. His first book, Wild Hundreds (Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in poetry. He is co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books). Marshall also co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks with Eve Ewing and records hip-hop as a solo artist and with the group Daily Lyrical Product. He is an assistant professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is from the South Side of Chicago.