Patience Agbabi, poet and performer


 Humanities Center     Oct 24 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Crystal Cove Auditorium

Patience Agabi
Patience Agbabi is a British poet and performer. Agbabi began performing on the London club circuit in 1995. As Canterbury Laureate from July 2009 to December 2010, Agbabi developed a full-length poetry collection based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and her 2014 Telling Tales mines Chaucer for a twenty-first century take on the characters, its poetry, and its performance elements.

Thursday, 5:00-6:15, Crystal Cove Auditorium: Public conversation with Jane O. Newman and performance based on Agbabi's work with refugees. RSVP

Friday, 11-12, Bio Sci III: Chaucer spoken word performance.

Co-sponsored by the Department of English, Medieval Devysings, The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, International Center for Writing and Translation, Humanities Core, the UCI Shakespeare Center, International Studies, and Illuminations.