Carmen Jimenez, Executive Director at Graywolf Press in conversation with with Aisha Sabatini Sloan, author of Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, (Graywolf Press) and Roberto Tejada, author of Carbonate of Copper (Fordham University Press).

Aisha is also the author of The Fluency of Light, Borealis, and Captioning the Archives. She's an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. Roberto Tejada is the author of numerous poetry collections and several books on art and media history.He is a professor of creative writing and art history at the University of Houston.

Today's lab will consider the relationships between writers and visual artists and consider how we write about art, race, and personal experience.