{"id":584,"date":"2025-06-18T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/?p=584"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:35:14","slug":"lift-every-voice-reading-by-award-winning-author-phillip-b-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/2025\/06\/lift-every-voice-reading-by-award-winning-author-phillip-b-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201eLift Every Voice\u201c: Reading by Award Winning author Phillip B. Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At this year&#8217;s &#8222;Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften&#8220; in Halle, Phillip B. Williams, winner of the 2022 American Book Award, will read from his latest novel <em>Ours<\/em> (Viking, 2024), and from an unreleased book of poems called <em>Lift Every Voice<\/em>. (scheduled for American release summer of 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reading will be followed by an informal conversation with the author over some Tinto de Verano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/files\/2025\/06\/Willaims-NdLw-1024x537.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/files\/2025\/06\/Willaims-NdLw-1024x537.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/files\/2025\/06\/Willaims-NdLw-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/files\/2025\/06\/Willaims-NdLw-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/files\/2025\/06\/Willaims-NdLw.png 1486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ours<\/em> is a real literary gem. It illuminates a greater understanding of what it means to be human and the complex, tangled lives and afterlives of enslavement. As the <em>Guardian<\/em> review put it: Hidden and enchanted, the town of Ours \u2013 founded by a woman called Saint \u2013 reflects wider truths about US black history. Phillip B. Williams is from Chicago, Illinois, and is the author of two collections of poetry, <em>Thief in the Interior<\/em> and <em>Mutiny. <\/em>His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. A nominee for an NAACP Image Awards in poetry, he received several prestigious prizes for his work and serves as a faculty member at the New York University MFA program and Randolph College low-residency MFA. Currently, he is a Picador fellow at Leipzig University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>: July 4, 2025, 8 &#8211; 9:30 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Place<\/strong>: MLU Halle-Wittenberg, SR 3 (Adam-Kuckhoff-Stra\u00dfe 35, 06108 Halle)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this year&#8217;s &#8222;Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften&#8220; in Halle, Phillip B. Williams, winner of the 2022 American Book Award, will read from his latest novel Ours (Viking, 2024), and from an unreleased book of poems called Lift Every Voice. (scheduled for American release summer of 2026) The reading will be followed by an informal conversation &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/2025\/06\/lift-every-voice-reading-by-award-winning-author-phillip-b-williams\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6076,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[37,36,35,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.urz.uni-halle.de\/julianitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}