Edwidge Danticat is a powerful figure in contemporary literature who has written more than twenty books, along with short stories and essays. She is a preeminent voice for the Haitian-American experience and has received numerous honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the American Book Award. She will be in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover, Yale Professor of African American Studies and French. Kaiama L. Glover’s work focuses on the literature of the Francophone Caribbean. Danticat and Glover will discuss what it means to create art while in exile from Haiti as well as the challenges of telling the history of the Caribbean, contextualizing the contemporary significance of the Clark’s current exhibition Guillaume Lethière.

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.