Writing In & Through the Legacy of Black Women Poets

Friday, November 3 | 2:45-4:00 pm | Panel 24 Jackson Convention Complex 207/208

“The Theme Song of the Chicago Colored Girl – Singing Along with Mama Gwen” Patricia Smith, Princeton University

“Our Grace, Sarcophilous” Duriel E. Harris, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora at Illinois State University

“A Poet’s Libretto: June Jordan’s I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky” Arisa White, Colby College

“What Did I See to Be? Writing in the Spirit of Lucille Clifton” Lauren K. Alleyne, Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University

Chair: Lauren K. Alleyne, Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University