Symposium on Poet Sterling Brown

Symposium on Poet Sterling Brown

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Symposium On The Life And Work of Sterling A. Brown

WHO WAS THIS GIANT OF A MAN, D.C.'S FIRST POET LAUREATE?

WHAT LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS DID HE MAKE?

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MODERATOR/HOST: ESTHER IVEREM, CRITIC, AUTHOR, POET AND WPFW RADIO SHOW HOST

READING: TIMOTHY JENKINS, STERLING STUDENT

PANELISTS:

  • DR. DANA WILLIAMS, HOWARD UNIVERSITY, CHAIR, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
  • DR. JOANNE V. GABBIN, JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY, AUTHOR, "STERLING A. BROWN: BUILDING THE BLACK AESTHETIC TRADITION"
  • COURTLAND COX, SNCC LEGACY PROJECT
  • ROY LEWIS, STERLING A. BROWN PHOTOGRAPHER

STERLING BROWN LITERARY SOCIETY OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY WILL DO ORAL INTERPRETATIONS OF BROWN'S POEMS

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Suggested Readings

The Last Ride Of Wild Bill, Sterling A. Brown, ISNB 0-910296-01-4 cloth 0-910296-02-2 paperSterling A. Brown: Building the Aesthetic Tradition, Joanne V. Gabbin ISNB 0-8139-1531-7The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown, Michael Harper, ISNB 0-8101-5045-x

A Son’s Return: Selected Essays of Sterling A. Brown, ISBN 978-1-55553-275-8

These books can be purchased at Borders Books, Catholic University

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