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The People’s Tongue

May 21, 2023 @ 4:00 pm

American Writers Museum event on May 21 at 4 o'clock

The American Writer’s Museum is celebrating a new book The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language, a riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English.

Featuring performances and readings from Ilan Stavans, editor of the The People’s TonguePaquito D’Rivera, renowned Cuban-American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer; Fareed Haque, Pakistani-Chilean-American jazz and classical guitarist and University of Chicago professor; and Ambassador Carolyn Curiel, senior speechwriter and special assistant to President Bill Clinton and former editorial board member of The New York Times.

The event will begin with a short performance by D’Rivera and Haque, followed by discussion moderated by Stavans and including Curiel, and conclude with several short readings from the anthology.

Available for in person and livestream.

180 N. Michigan Avenue, 2nd Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60601 United States
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