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April 12, 2021
The WSU Common Reading Program has announced the 2021-22 book to be used by first-year and other students in classes and beyond is Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman.
By Beverly Makhani
Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement (DAESA)
The Washington State University Common Reading Program has announced the 2021-22 book to be used by first-year and other students in classes and beyond is
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman.
Electronic desk copies will be made available soon to faculty who might wish to incorporate topics from the book into their courses.
Best American Poetry. Jackson serves as poetry editor of the
Harvard Review.
A Philadelphia native, Jackson pursued accounting at Temple University. After college he took a job as finance director at Philadelphia’s Painted Bride Art Center, where he developed a taste for art and activism. He turned to a brief career as a literary critic and journalist of the hip-hop scene before heading off to the University of Oregon to earn his Master of Fine Arts in poetry. He spent 18 years as a professor of English at The University of Vermont.
Jackson recently told an interviewer at Vanderbilt that art “can be an immense tool for community-gathering. We are less alone when we hear the human condition articulated in a poem or essay.”
January 22, 2021
By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri‑Cities
Washington State University Tri‑Cities will host a free seminar discussion on exclusion and segregation in the mid-Columbia region on Tuesday, Jan. 26, as part of the WSU Common Reading Program.
This event, which takes place from 4–5:30 p.m. online, coincides with the launch of the third book in the “Hanford Histories” series that documents historical accounts and realities of the Hanford Site and surrounding regional area.
Both the book and event parallel themes in this year’s WSU Common Reading book, “Born A Crime” by Trevor Noah, who lived in racially-segregated areas in South Africa.
January 14, 2021
By Steve Nakata, Division of Student Affairs
Campuses across the Washington State University system have planned more than 30 events in recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. The events will span several months and feature authors, songwriters, rappers, visual artists and films.
The full list of events can be viewed at the MLK Program website.
The celebration kicks-off with Virtual Bingo for Student Groups on Wednesday, Jan. 20 and concludes with Tongan Visual Artist Robin Fifita on Friday, April 30. Scheduled in between are a wide variety of events including several keynote addresses, beginning with Bree Newsome Bass on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m.