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Joining us via cspan across the country. I am pleased to introduce this event behind the scenes with black writers. Featuring Jericho Brown and two authors. Jericho was last at the festival in tonight 2019 to talk about his third and most recent book of poems which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize of poetry. [applause] he is the Charles Howard professor and creative writer at Emory University. Today, he is here to lead a discussion on the anthology edited titled how we do it, black writers, how...

Supposed to be, happy, pretty, pampered and without worries. Nearly the exact opposite of my life up to that point. I was done. I unpacked my entire room in less that an hour. I walked to the end of the hallway to jades room. She was still unpacking and in deep conversation about which things her mom would have to take back to new york with her. I returned to my room and flopped down on the belled. I had no television on the bed. I had no television or radio. I listened to the conversations thro...

Supposed to be, happy, pretty, pampered and without worries. Nearly the exact opposite of my life up to that point. I was done. I unpacked my entire room in less that an hour. I walked to the end of the hallway to jades room. She was still unpacking and in deep conversation about which things her mom would have to take back to new york with her. I returned to my room and flopped down on the belled. I had no television on the bed. I had no television or radio. I listened to the conversations thro...

Please silence your cell phones if you would. In terms of books which i know you all want to make sure you get the books you are going to be hearing about this morning outside the Capitol Building on mississippi st. There are number of sellers who will have looks and adjacent to the industry as the signing tent. In the back page of your brochure you will see this fantastic schedule. Authors will not necessarily be on immediately after the panel so just check the other name and the time in the br...

Reporter i just recently was promoted to full professor. Congratulations. [applause]. So my colleagues might be watching this morning. James baldwin, i have a very Good Relationship with him when i first encountered his name i encountered it as my dad working in the village together. Then then i met him when i was 14. I remember coming behind him and tracing collars as an adult in graduate school his words blonde with audrey and it literally saved my life. I was one of only two africanamericans ...

Join the Art Prevails Project at the 2nd annual OUR VOICES: FESTIVAL OF WORDS in Fort Lauderdale this month. Learn more and see how to get involved!

April brings the release of several illuminating books, including a poignant portrait of mental illness and a collection of captivating nature poetry

National Poetry Month at Tulane Libraries kicks off with Cody Smith, Jericho Brown, and Elidio La Torre Lagares. Congratulations, Elidio! Puerto Rican poet Elidio La Torre Lagares’ poetry collection Wonderful Wasteland and other natural disasters has been selected by Tulane University Libraries to kick off April 2024 National Poetry Month, along with Louisiana poet Cody…

WSU’s Visiting Authors series will be holding a Creative Writing Poetry Workshop on April 3. Scholarly assistant professor Cameron McGill said he oversees the Visiting Authors Series and students interested in delving deeper into the world of creative writing can attend the one-credit workshop. Prospective participants are encouraged to reach out to their CAS Advisor...

Our experience of—and existence in—nature is universal, if rarely identical. As part of her historic tenure as the 24th US Poet Laureate, Ada Limón commissioned some of the finest poets of our era to write to perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, in an anthology that is uniformly intimate, if diverse in subject matter. The collection also serves as a starting point for a National Parks project that comingles these literary offerings with poetic “exhibits” in sev...