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More than 100 people attended the Ben Belitt Colloquium on Arts and Literary Culture in Tishman Auditorium on ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø College’s campus on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. They joined panelists Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown, the MacArthur Award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem ’86, celebrated poet Camille Rankine, and moderator and ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø faculty member Benjamin Anastas to learn about the life and work of Queer Black poet and essayist Reginald Shepherd ’88, an underrecognized member of the ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø literary community in the eighties. Below is a piece Lethem wrote for and read at the event.