Oct. 25 @ 5 pm: Mehrsa Baradaran on “the color of money” (the history of black banks)
On Thursday, October 25, starting at 5 PM at Kelly Writers House, I will have the honor of hosting Mehrsa Baradaran, this year’s featured guest at our annual Weber Symposium. RSVP by writing to mingo@writing.upenn.edu. Free & open to all but seating is limited, so RSVP soon! I am nearly finished reading Mehrsa’s “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap” & find it powerful and illuminating. Our event starts with a big reception, followed by an informal interview/Q&A moderated by me. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970953
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center
for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Secretaries of the Moon,
Wallace Stevens & the Actual World, Modernism from Left to Right, and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60. His new book is 
Founder/Faculty Director, 