Greensboro
Poetry Sampler
Sunday, April 23, 2005 - 3:00
pm ~ Greensboro Historical Museum - 130 Summit Avenue ~ FREE
One
of our most popular programs last year was our poetry sampler. So we
decided to make it an annual tradition. Don.t miss this chance to hear 7
poets in 70 minutes.This year's sampler features seven African-American
women poets. They are Anjail Rashida Ahmad, director of
Creative Writing at N.C. A&T State University; Linda Brown,
author and Bennett College for Women administrator and faculty member; Amaris
Howard, a poet, teacher and activist; Donalja James, local
host of spoken word events also known as The Voiceness; Carole Boston
Weatherford, author of numerous children's books and poetry
collections including The Tan Chanteuse; Jacinta White,
founder and artistic director of the WORD project, which uses poetry for
healing; Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Dana Professor of English
at Guilford College, whose works have been published in numerous
journals and featured on NPR.
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