Portrait Gallery: Morgan Parker

Promotional materials describe Morgan Parker’s new book, Magical Negro as “funny exploration of Black American womanhood” and “an archive of black everydayness.” It’s a collection of smart and raw poems about grief and anger and joy and disbelief and everything else that it means to be a black woman in America today. Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, 322-7030, http://hugohouse.org, 7 pm, free.