Poetry has long been a crucial space for constructing and deconstructing racial identities. What can we learn about race from poetry, and poetry from race? How do national and transnational conversations about poetry and race intersect and diverge? Representing a variety of specializations, world-class speakers will compare insights into these and other questions. The symposium will conclude with a poetry reading and reflection by the poet laureate of Jamaica, Lorna Goodison. Other featured speakers will include J. Edward Chamberlin, Tsitsi Jaji, Urayoán Noel, Josephine Park, Evie Shockley, and Nathan Suhr-Sytsma.