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Watch segments of the
Eleventh National Black Writers Conference
on Book TV!
C-SPAN Book TV schedule-
http://www.booktv.org/Schedule.aspx
Selected panels and conversations
will be aired this weekend,
Saturday, April 28, and Sunday, April 29.
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In the Media, Announcements & Events
THE CENTER FOR BLACK LITERATURE @ MEDGAR EVERS
PRESENTS WRITERS ON WRITING ON WNYE, 91.5 FM
SUNDAYS, 7:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M.
Hosted by Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Executive Director
Center for Black Literature
SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012
CORNEL WEST
FEATURED GUEST
CO-AUTHOR WITH TAVIS SMILEY
The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
Smiley and West argue that there are nearly 150 million poor and near poor people in America who are not responsible for the damage done by the Great Recession. Yet these people pay the price.
They challenge us to re-examine our assumptions about poverty in America, what it really is and how to eliminate it now. In the introduction to their book, they state: “This manifesto, backed by stubborn facts and damning statistics, will erase any doubt that we are experiencing a crisis in our country; we are dangerously close to cementing a permanent American catastrophe.”
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Other Literary Events
Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones
In a conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Tuesday, May 1, 2012; 7 p.m.
New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Celeste Bartos Forum
4 W. 42nd Street (Fifth Avenue; B/D/F/M to 42nd Street)
live@nypl.org / 212-930-0855
www.nypl.org/live
$25 General Admission
$15 Seniors, Students, and Library Friends
Get tickets online, at http://www.showclix.com/event/224009 or by calling 888/71-TICKETS (842-5357).
Use the code FRIENDS to receive 40% off!
Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award-winning novel Salvage the Bones is an unflinching look at rural poverty, sacrifice, and the human condition during a time of crisis. In conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Ward will discuss her novel as well as her broader interest in fiction grounded in life experience.
Thalia Book Club: Toni Morrison Home
Wednesday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, New York 10025
$25; Member $21; 30 & Under $15
In her new, deeply moving novel, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on America's history with a twentieth-century tale of redemption, a story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world troubled by war, an apparently defeated man finding his manhood-and his home. This event is in association with Hue-Man Bookstore
For ticket information, visit www.symphonyspace.org
The Killens Review of Arts & Letters
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Killens Review of Arts & Letters journal, which is published twice a year by the Center for Black Literature (CBL), is dedicated to supporting the mission and work of the late John Oliver Killens, the visionary for the National Black Writers Conference. Through the Killens Review of Arts & Letters, writers have opportunities to create and expand the canon of literature produced by writers of color. The journal includes essays, fiction, art, poetry, and interviews by established authors, emerging writers, poets and artists, educators and students.
John Oliver Killens, author, activist, social critic, educator and former writer-in-residence at Medgar Evers College, spent decades writing and working to support Black writers and their work. It is important that CBL continues to provide and remind the general public, students, faculty, and those in the literary and publishing communities about the significance of the broad range of works produced by Black writers.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
To submit original work, please send a paginated word document that includes the title of work, the author’s name and contact information to writers@mec.cuny.edu. Please CC CBL.writers@gmail.com All submissions are peer reviewed by an editorial team. We kindly ask that you be patient with our responses.
THE CENTER FOR BLACK LITERATURE
Founded in 2003 and spearheaded by Dr. Brenda M. Greene, the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, was established to expand, broaden, and enrich the general public’s knowledge and aesthetic appreciation of the value of black literature; to continue the tradition and legacy of the National Black Writers Conference; to serve as a voice, mecca, and resource for Black writers; and to study the literature of people from the African Diaspora. It is the only Center devoted to this in the country.
The Eleventh National Black Writers Conference
March 29 – April 1, 2012,
"The Impact of Migration, Popular Culture
and the Natural Environment in the
Literature of Black Writers"
Funding provided by: National Endowment for the Arts & New
York Council of the Humanities
Media support provided by: African American Literature Book Club, AKILA Worksongs, Inc.
2012 NBWC Awardees
Ishmael Reed – John Oliver Killens Lifetime Achievement Award
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o – W. E. B. Du Bois Award
Dr. Howard Dodson – Ida B. Wells Institution Building Award
Nikki Giovanni - Gwendolyn Brooks Award
For a full description of the 2012 National Black Writers Conference, Program, Registration, and Sponsors please visit: http://www.nationalblackwritersconference.org/home.html
Read this issue of Neworld Review featuring the article “Haki Madhubuti:
A Tradition of Liberation Narratives” by Brenda M. Greene.
“if poetry is to have meaning
it must mean something
more than metaphor and simile
more than tree-talk and looking for gigs
more than competition in unrhymed free verse
serious to the bone of incomprehension
surely to land the poet
a guggenheim or macarthur genius grant.”
...Read More
Also read:
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I’m Not and Other Plays
by Brenda M Greene
There are few writers alive who have created a body of work that both teaches and celebrates life, even at its darkest moments.” Haki Madhubuti, “Sonia Sanchez, The Bringer of Memories”
At the Split the Rock Celebration of Langston Hughes, sponsored by the Association of Writing Conference in Washington DC, Sarah Browning, poet and Director of Split This Rock and DC Poets Against the War, introduced Sonia Sanchez as “a mighty, mighty poet.” These words symbolize the persona of Sonia Sanchez, a woman who is a mighty poet, playwright, teacher and literary activist and who over the last five decades has provided generations of writers, Read More
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