Speaking of Marvels interviews Arlene Keizer, author of Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black
May 10th, 2023
Arlene Keizer speaks to Megan Nichols of Speaking of Marvels about her upcoming book, Fraternal Light, Winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
“Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black is a lyric response to the life and art of the African American painter Beauford Delaney. The phrase “fraternal light” is an almost Surrealist image that came to me as I was writing ‘A Country Meter,’ a poem imagining Delaney’s sense of relative freedom after emigrating to France in 1953. “—Arlene Keizer.
