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All Pikes Peak Reads: Remembering a Million Finnas: Q&A with poet Nate Marshall

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Join Pikes Peak Library District and Nate Marshall, author of Finna, a 2021 All Pikes Peak Reads selection, for a facilitated Q&A session entitled "Remembering a Million Finnas: A Conversation with Nate Marshall." The conversation will be facilitated by Assistant Professor of English at Colorado College, Aline Lo. 

Nate Marshall is an award-winning writer, rapper, educator, and editor. He is the author and editor of numerous works including Wild Hundreds and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Nate is a member of The Dark Noise Collective and co-directs Crescendo Literary. He is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College. He is from the South Side of Chicago.

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Aline Lo is a scholar of American refugee literature and Hmong American Studies. She currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of English at Colorado College. She has published on Hmong, Southeast Asian American, and refugee film and literature. Her other interests include migration, gender, and life writing.

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