Name: There's Always This Year: An Evening with Hanif Abdurraqib
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Description: SPACE is honored to host an evening with poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib as part of the tour for his latest book.

There's Always This Year: An Evening with Hanif Abdurraqib

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SPACE is honored to host an evening with poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib as part of the tour for his latest book.

Hanif Abdurraqib

co-presented by The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, Back Cove Books, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Maine Humanities Council, and Gelato Fiasco.While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture’s most insightful critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the 1990s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with memoir. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jumpshot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.”There’s Always This Year is a classic Abdurraqib triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. It’s about basketball in the way They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us is about music and A Little Devil in America is about history—no matter the subject, Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, <a href="https://buttonpoetry.com/product/the-crown-aint-worth-much/" title="https://buttonpoetry.com/product/the-crown-aint-worth-much/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Crown Ain't Worth Much</a>, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in summer 2017 (you cannot get it anymore and he is very sorry.) His first collection of essays, <a href="https://twodollarradio.com/products/they-cant-kill-us" title="https://twodollarradio.com/products/they-cant-kill-us" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us</a>, was released in winter 2017 by Two Dollar Radio and was named a book of the year by Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. He released<a href="https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/abdurraqib-go-ahead-in-the-rain" title="https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/abdurraqib-go-ahead-in-the-rain" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest </a>with University of Texas press in February 2019. The book became a New York Times Bestseller, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. His second collection of poems, <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781947793439" title="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781947793439" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A Fortune For Your Disaster</a>, was released in 2019 by Tin House, and won the 2020 Lenore Marshall Prize. In 2021, he released the book A Little Devil In America with Random House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. The book won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Gordon Burn Prize. Hanif is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.

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