Authors @ Compton | Fall 2020 Sponsored by the Compton College Author Committee

Meet Quincy Troupe Author Reading & Roundtable Discussion: The role of poets during a time defined by #blacklivesmatter and COVID-19.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11 a.m. – Noon Author Reading 12 – 1 p.m. Roundtable Discussion

Open to the Public via Zoom https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/97720373366?pwd=OHF4MXZPTUU0UUNIMm5NKzVoUW14UT09 Password: 700327

Quincy Troupe is the author of 20 books, including 10 volumes of poetry and three children’s books. His awards include the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement, the Milt Kessler Poetry Award, three American Book Awards, the 2014 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, a 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from Furious Flower, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Award, January 25, 2018, in Detroit, Michigan. His writings have been translated into over 30 languages.

Troupe’s latest books of poems are Seduction and a book length poem, Ghost Voices, published by Tri-Quarterly Northwestern University Press in 2018. He is co-author with Miles Davis of Miles: The Autobiography, and author of Miles and Me, a chronicle of his friendship with Miles Davis, re-issued by Seven Stories Press (Fall 2018), which will become a major motion picture for which Mr. Troupe wrote the screenplay. The film is scheduled to go into production in the fall/winter of 2020.

Seven Stories Press is publishing a new collection of Troupe’s poetry, titled Duende: Poems, 1966–Now in the spring of 2021 and his memoir, The Accordion Years later next year.

Quincy Troupe is Professor Emeritus from the University of California, San Diego. He is the Poetry Editor of A Gathering of the Tribes and Contributing Editor to Konch, two online literary journals.

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