Please join the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, Mechanic’s Hall, and PRINT: A Bookstore for the launch of Arisa White’s lyrical memoir, Who’s Your Daddy, as part of the First Friday Reading Series. White will be in conversation about her book with Gibson Fay-LeBlanc.
Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link.
National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes writes, “Arisa White channels the ear of Zora Neale Hurston, the tongue of Toni Cade Bambara, and the eye of Alice Walker in the wondrous Who’s Your Daddy. She channels Guyanese proverbs, Shango dreams, games of hide and seek, and memories of an absentee father to shape the spiritual condition. What she makes is ‘a maze that bobs and weaves a new style whenever there’s a demand to love.’ What she gives us are archives, allegories, and wholly new songs.”
Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. She is the author of four books, including the poetry collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, and coauthor of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, winner of the Maine Literary Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Middle- Grade Nonfiction. She serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press.