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Books by Arnold Rampersand
Jackie Robinson: A Biography /
Ralph
Ellison: A Biography /
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
The Life of Langston Hughes (vol. 1), !902-1941 /
The Life of Langston Hughes (Vol II), 1914-1967
Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays /
The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois
Slavery and the Literary Imagination
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Brooklyn National Black Writers Conference
Considered
the premier conference of its type in the US,
NBWC
panelists have included notable black writers
Brooklyn National Black Writers Conference
2003
April
2 - April 5
you are invited to
be a part of the oldest and largest conference of its kind
National Black Writers Conference 2003
"Literature as Access: Connecting to Ourselves,
Our Communities, Our Histories"
Wednesday, April 2
through
Saturday, April 5
For Writers, Avid Readers, Scholars, Critics, Publishers,
Literacy Advocates,
and supporters of literature by African Americans & other
peoples of African Ancestry!
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NBWC Conference Program
www.nbwc.org
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Wednesday, April 2
"Literature as Propaganda: Reconsidering
W.E.B. DuBois -- Souls of Black Folk"
7:00
pm - 9:00 pm
Books & amp; Authors featuring Stanley Crouch and
Playthell Benjamin
Considered
the premier conference of its type in the US, NBWC
panelists have included notable black writers such as
Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Derek
Walcott, John Edgar Wideman, Terry McMillan, Bebe Moore
Campbell, Jill Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, Walter
Mosley, Marita Golden, George Lamming, Ntozake Shange,
John A. Williams, Margaret Walker Alexander, Paule
Marshall, Mari Evans, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Arnold
Rampersad, Stanley Crouch, and Maryse Condé, among
others. www.aalbc.com/authors/elizabet.htm
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FOR
ANYONE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING
6th National Black Writers Conference
April
2 - 5, 2003
HERE'S THE LINE-UP
Panels & workshops held at The Studio Museum in
Harlem,
New York University, and Medgar Evers College/CUNY
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some events are free and open to the general public;
others require registration
Featuring:
Amiri
Baraka, Marita Golden, Walter Mosley,
Elizabeth Nunez, Michael Eric Dyson, Camille Yarbrough,
John Edgar Wideman, jessica Care moore, Stanley Crouch,
Joan Morgan, Colin Channer, Toni Blackman,
Louis Reyes Rivera, Terrie Williams, Quincy Troupe,
Woodie King, Jr., and many others!
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Wednesday, April 2
"Literature as Propaganda: Reconsidering
W.E.B. DuBois’ “Souls of Black Folk”
with Stanley Crouch and Playthell Benjamin
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Co-sponsored by The Studio Museum in Harlem
this
pre-conference event is free and open to the public
Friday,
April 4
(Friday
events @ Medgar Evers College)
FILM: Emmett Till
9:00 am - 10:45 am
There will be a discussion after the film
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"Conformity & Resistance: Writing for
Film"
11:00 am -12:00 pm
Panelists: Sam Pollard, Thulani Davis, Richard Wesley,
Yvonne Welbon ~ Moderator: Clyde Taylor
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"READING: Emerging Voices: Writers on Their
Work"
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Readers: Obery Hendricks, Ravi Howard, Nelly Rosario,
Nicole Bailey Williams ~ Moderator: Marita Golden
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Spoken Word/Hip-Hop Poetry Event
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
MC: jessica Care moore
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Official
Conference Opening:
VIP Reception & Photo Exhibit
("Dripping
Ink: Light as a Feather: Heavy as Lead")
6:00
pm - 7:00 pm
Co-sponsored by African Voices
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"Reflections on Literature as Access"
7:00 pm -- 9:00 pm
A conversation with NBWC Honorary Chair
Elizabeth Nunez and Guests
with a Special Tribute to John O. Killens
(novelist and co-founder of NBWC)
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Saturday,
April 5
"The State of Black Literature"
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Panelists: Tina McElroy Ansa, Amiri Baraka,
Keith Gilyard, Sonia Sanchez **,
John Edgar Wideman ~ Moderator: Max
Rodriquez
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"Writing to Publish: Authors, Editors,
and Agents on Contemporary Writing"
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Panelists: Malaika Adero, Colin Channer, Donna Hill,
Tracey Sherrod ~ Moderator: Linda Duggins
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"Writing Our Selves: Memoir"
11:15 am - 12:45 pm
A Conversation with Michael Eric Dyson
Interviewed By Joan Morgan
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"Conformity and Resistance: Writing for
Stage"
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Panelists: Eisa Davis, Paul Carter
Harrison, Laurence Holder,
Marcia Leslie ~ Moderator: Woodie King, Jr.
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"Saving Our Futures: Inspirational,
Self-Help, and Motivational Books"
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Panelists: Patrik Henry Bass, Herb Boyd,
Brooke Stephens, Terrie Williams,
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"Voices of Conscience:
Poets, Griots, and the Spoken Word"
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Panelists: Toni Blackman, Linda Susan Jackson,
Tony Medina, Louis Reyes Rivera,
Tracy K. Smith ~ Moderator: Delridge Hunter
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"It Takes a Village: The State
of Children's Literature"
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Panelists: Cheryl Hudson, Christopher
Meyers, Walter Dean Myers,
Camille Yarbrough ~ Moderator: Wade Hudson
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WORKSHOPS
(all
workshops will be held at Medgar Evers College and require
a separate registration)
Poetry Workshop with Quraysh Ali Lansana
(11:15 am - 12:45 pm)
Writing for Theater and Screen with Marcia
Leslie
(11:15 pm - 12:45 pm)
Writing Children's Literature with Camille
Yarbrough
(11:15 pm - 12:45 pm)
Preparing a Successful Book Proposal with Tracey
Sherrod (1:00 pm - 2:00 pm)
Fiction: The First Chapter with Donna Hill
(2:00 pm - 3:30 pm)
Songwriting with Masauko Glyn Chipembere
(2:00 pm - 3:30 pm)
Biography and Memoir with Quincy Troupe
(4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
* The Studio Museum in Harlem is located at 144 W.
125th Street (NYC). For more information about this venue,
please call 212.864.4500. Medgar Evers College is
located at 1650 Bedford Avenue (Brooklyn, NY).
** For serious health reasons, Dr. Sonia Sanchez will not
be in attendance as originally confirmed. She will,
however, provide a statement on the topic which will be
presented at this panel.
for additional program information, registration,
directions,
FAQ Sheet, and other details, please call
The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College
at 718.270.6976 or visit our website at www.nbwc.org
requests
for media kits are directed to 718.756.8501
or pr.media@akilaworksongs.com
or aworksongs@aol.com
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Life on Mars
By Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith, author of Life on Mars has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In its review of the book, Publishers Weekly noted the collection's "lyric brilliance" and "political impulses [that] never falter." A New York Times review stated, "Smith is quick to suggest that the important thing is not to discover whether or not we're alone in the universe; it's to accept—or at least endure—the universe's mystery. . . . Religion, science, art: we turn to them for answers, but the questions persist, especially in times of grief. Smith's pairing of the philosophically minded poems in the book’s first section with the long elegy for her father in the second is brilliant." Life on Mars follows Smith's 2007 collection, Duende, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, the only award for poetry in the United States given to support a poet's second book, and the first Essence Literary Award for poetry, which recognizes the literary achievements of African Americans. The Body’s Question (2003) was her first published collection. Smith said Life on Mars, published by small Minnesota press Graywolf, was inspired in part by her father, who was an engineer on the Hubble space telescope and died in 2008.
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The Last Holiday: A Memoir
By Gil Scott Heron
Shortly after we republished The Vulture and The Nigger Factory, Gil started to tell me about The Last Holiday, an account he was writing of a multi-city tour that he ended up doing with Stevie Wonder in late 1980 and early 1981. Originally Bob Marley was meant to be playing the tour that Stevie Wonder had conceived as a way of trying to force legislation to make Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. At the time, Marley was dying of cancer, so Gil was asked to do the first six dates. He ended up doing all 41. And Dr King's birthday ended up becoming a national holiday ("The Last Holiday because America can't afford to have another national holiday"), but Gil always felt that Stevie never got the recognition he deserved and that his story needed to be told. The first chapters of this book were given to me in New York when Gil was living in the Chelsea Hotel. Among the pages was a chapter called Deadline that recounts the night they played Oakland, California, 8 December; it was also the night that John Lennon was murdered. Gil uses Lennon's violent end as a brilliant parallel to Dr King's assassination and as a biting commentary on the constraints that sometimes lead to newspapers getting things wrong. —Jamie Byng, Guardian / Gil_reads_"Deadline" (audio) / Gil Scott-Heron
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