Book Launch – Without Terminus: untraining an archive by chaun webster

Saturday, June 27th - 2 PM
at East Side Freedom Library

Join us for an afternoon of reading, conversation, and fellowship with poet and sound artist chaun webster and Black Studies Professor and Pullman railcar researcher, Dr. James Robinson.

chaun webster’s third collection, Without Terminus: untraining an archive, is a philosophically rigorous and deeply moving work — part elegy, part archival detective story, part visual poem. Drawing on his family’s history as Pullman porters, webster explores Black rest, memory, and the labor that grief demands of the living.

Kirkus Reviews calls it “a virtuoso work of literary experimentation in the service of a forgotten history.” Kao Kalia Yang, author of Where Rivers Part, describes it as “an act of revolution cloaked in the language of poetry, wielding a heart full of courage.”