Book Launch, co-presented by Frequency Writers: Writer Colin Channer reads from his new, debut collection of poetry, Providential, published by Akashic Books.
7pm reception, 7:30 program, followed by book sale and signing

Born in Jamaica to a pharmacist and a policeman, Channer has been called “one of the Caribbean Diaspora’s finest writers” by Junot Diaz. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, The Common, and Renaissance Noire, among other places. His many books of prose include the novella The Girl with the Golden Shoes, “a very moving and mesmerizing journey” in the words of Edwidge Danticat. He has taught at Wellesley College and Brandeis University, and won the Silver Musgrave Medal in Literature in 2010.