Bird in Hand is honored to host this public event with David Mills and Aja Lans, which is a collaboration between the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, the Krieger First-Year Seminars, and the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts. David Mills’ BONEYARN is a poetry collection like none other, turning Mills’ singular poetic eye to New York’s African Burial Ground, America’s oldest and largest cemetary for enslaved people. BONEYARN was the winner of the 2022 North American Book Award.