FLORENCE– UNA is partnering with local art and history entities to begin the Annual Black History Month Speakers Series. The first of this series will take place Wednesday, February 6, at the Florence Indian Mound Museum with poet Nabila Lovelace.
Lovelace will conduct a workshop at 6 p.m., followed by a poetry reading and Q&A at 7 p.m.
Lovelace is a first-generation Queens native. Her people hail from Trinidad & Nigeria.
Sons of Achilles, her debut book of poems, is out now through YesYes Books. She holds degrees from The University of Alabama and Emory University. Her poems have been featured in ESPN, The Academy of American Poets, The Southeast Review, and other journals.
The event is sponsored by UNA’s Department of Diversity and Institutional Equity, UNA’s Department of English, Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area and Florence Arts and Museums.
Media Release/ Maddie Goodwin
Student Writer/UNA