The Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society New England Chapter presents the program, “Blood Bible: An American History,” with featured speaker DaMaris B. Hill. A poet and creative scholar, Hill is a professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing Program at the University of Kentucky. She will talk about the book she currently is working on, “Blood Bible: An American History.” The brook bridges personal stories with archival materials, and wrestles with how we historically and collectively claim belonging. It also questions how we curate, create, and understand home.

Hill also is the author of “Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood,” “A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing,” “The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland,” and other books. Her digital work includes “Shut Up In My Bones,” a 21st-century poem.