Back in February I was invited by New York City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer to be one of four honorees at the yearly Black History Month celebration hosted by his office. This event is usually held in person, but due to COVID-19, it was held online.
This week Van Bramer delivered the certificates to each of the honorees.
Thank you to my Council Member and neighbor Jimmy Van Bramer. I am grateful for this recognition.
I really enjoyed this conversation with Matt Miller (and Karen Karbiener). You can view it now on YouTube.
Walt Whitman, Racism, and American Literature: Matt Miller and Lavelle Porter
I have a new review essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books on two recently published books by Chip Delany: In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969 (Wesleyan University Press, 2017) and Voyage, Orestes! (Bamberger Books, 2019).
“In Search of Samuel R. Delany”
I have a new piece out for National Poetry Month on JSTOR Daily about Walt Whitman, black writers, and the upcoming 200th anniversary celebrations of his birth.
I have a new piece out in the “Big Apple” issue of The Revelator, edited by Eric Schaller and Matthew Cheney. “A Walk Through Teju Cole’s Open City” was inspired by teaching Open City and taking my students on a walking tour of Lower Manhattan.
THE OVER-EDUCATED NEGRO 