Free and open to the public. There will be a reception at 5 P.M. with good food and drinks.

Anthony Walton is an acclaimed poet and essayist, as well as the editor and author of several books, including Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, which he co-wrote with NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Mississippi: An American Journey. In addition, Walton’s poems and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the Oxford American magazine.

For this lecture, Walton will build off the ideas in his latest book, The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation.

Walton is a professor and writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College.