Hanif Abdurraqib, Seattle Arts & Lectures: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 7:30 pm

Photo credit: Kate Sweeney

Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball growing up in Columbus, Ohio, one which inspired the writing in his memoir, There’s Always This Year—a triumph, which is brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus—whether it’s basketball, or music, or performance—Hanif Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.

Q&A with Robert Lashley.

Pre-registration for this live streamed event is required.

REGISTER HERE by April 7.

This series is brought to the community through the support of Friends of the Lopez Island Library.