Torch Literary Arts Presents: A Conversation with Tiana Clark & Donika Kelly
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Saturday, November 8
Capitol Extension Room: E2.010 (1100 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701)
Join Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly for a conversation that spans love, survival, joy, and the Black experience. Clark’s Scorched Earth takes readers through the borders of ruined and radical love, navigating divorce, the first Black Bachelorette, and the art world with lyrical precision, blending reverence and irreverence in a celebration of queer, Black joy. Kelly’s The Natural Order of Things explores the possibilities of life beyond survival, exploring intimacy, connection, and the reparative power of relationships with people, animals, and the natural world. In this conversation presented by Torch Literary Arts, Clark and Kelly illuminate the beauty, pain, and resilience woven into Black life.
- Books: Scorched Earth: Poems, The Natural Order of Things
- Book Type: Poetry
- Authors: Tiana Clark, Donika Kelly
- Moderator: Amanda Johnston
- Book Signing: 11:15 AM at The Main Book Signing Tent