Black Poetry Fest is a series of virtual readings and conversations on black poetics featuring southern black poets  exploring themes of family, history, black identity, and black language and music. Created and hosted by Nicholas Goodly for Fulton County Library System.

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This program is part of Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters, a national public humanities initiative of Library of America presented in partnership with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with generous support from The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Emerson Collective.