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Feb. 19, 2021
Manchester Community College, home of the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, is joining with the circuit to sponsor author and poet Ross Gay on Tuesday, March 2, from 7 to 8 p.m. Gay will read from his work live via WebEx.
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Gay is author of four books of poetry: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and was the winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Gay also is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin . He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer s Conference and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.
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Talty, 29, began teaching in the Native studies program at BMCC in 2018. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Native American studies from Dartmouth and a Master of Fine Arts from Stonecoast University of Southern Maine. He also teaches creative writing at the University of Southern Maine and literature/college writing at Husson University.
For Talty, writing has always been a passion. He finds himself inspired by Native writers who have come before him and those telling their stories today. “I’ve always been a storyteller. As I got older, I found writing fiction and nonfiction to be my medium through which I told stories,” says Talty. “Like so many Native tribes, there is very little representation in popular culture ther
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The world was blessed with Toni Morrison (pictured) on February 18, 1931. Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was born and raised in Lorain, Ohio. She was the second of four children to George and Ramah Wilford. Morrison was a product of a middle-class family.
Her father and mother were from the South (Georgia and Alabama, respectively) and moved north to start a family and escape the dangerous dregs of Southern racism. Morrison developed an affinity for reading as a child. Her upbringing instilled a deep sense of cultural identity.
In 1953, Morrison graduated with her B.A. in English from Howard University. She earned her M.A. from Cornell University in 1955. In 1967, Morrison’s career in publishing and literature took off. She became the first black woman to hold the title of senior editor at Random House, the largest book publisher in the world.
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