Literature, Ethics & Social Justice

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Literature, Ethics & Social Justice

By BU Arts Initiative

Date and time

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 · 7 - 9pm EDT

Location

Alfred L. Morse Auditorium

602 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215

Description

Join us for readings and discussion with three celebrated poet/authors: Sonia Sanchez, Gerald Vizenor, and Danielle Legros Georges, moderated by BU CGS faculty member Meg Tyler.

Doors will open at 6:30PM.




Sonia Sanchez is a renowned scholar, poet, playwright and activist who has been an influential force in African American literary and political culture for over three decades. One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sanchez is the author of sixteen books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems, and Shake Loose My Skin. She is the recipient of the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry, the Langston Hughes Poetry Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Award among others.

Gerald Vizenor is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published more than thirty books that include narrative histories, literary studies, novels, essays, short stories, and poetry. Blue Ravens, a historical novels about Native Americans in the First World War, Favor of Crows, a collection of original haiku poems, Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance, and Chair of Tears are his most recent books. Vizenor was a delegate to the Constitutional Conventions and the Principal Writer of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota. He has received the American Book Awar , the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, and the Lifetime Literary Achievement Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas.

Danielle Legros Georges is the Boston Poet Laureate and the author of two books of poetry, Maroon (Curbstone Press, now an imprint of Northwestern University Press, 2001) and The Dear Remote Nearness of You (Barrow Street Press, 2016); the chapbook Letters from Congo (Central Square Press, 2017); and the editor of City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems (Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, 2017). Her essays, translations, reviews, and poems have appeared in literary journals, books and publications including Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Boston Globe, Black Renaissance Noire, Build therefore your own world, The Caribbean Writer, and many more.

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