Tyehimba Jess, Poet

Wednesday, March 26

ANNOUNCEMENT

Due to circumstances beyond our control, these Lyceum Poetry Festival events will be changed.  Tyehimba Jess is not able to perform at this time.

Dr. Kirsten Hemmy received her M.A. in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and her in  Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. In 2003, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to study politics and poetry in Senegal. She has studied political writing and poetry in Ghana, and she is currently completing a book on Emma Brown, an Ibibio freedom fighter and political activist in Nigeria, as well as editing a collection of essays, poetry, and fiction by mixed race writers. She has published interviews with poets such as Yusef Komunyakaa and Ralph Angel; her poetry has been published in Sonora Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Callyx, CaKe Magazine, Midwest Poetry Review, Lake Effect, Bellingham Review, Southern Humanities Review, Cream City Review, Smartish Pace, Antioch Review, and elsewhere. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Johnson C. Smith University, and the director of Mosaic Literary Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery, cultivation, and preservation of contemporary literature and the arts in Charlotte, N.C.

Dr. Don Mager has two new books. Main Street Rag Publisher released Drive Time in February 2008. The chapbook is Mager's 7th poetry collection since 1987. In a time when energy consumption strains the earth’s resources and degrades the environment in drastic, perhaps catastrophic ways, the American automobile industry aggressively promotes products with glamorous fantasies of testosterone rushes about speed and rugged adventure. Meanwhile, suburban sprawl creates a daily diet of long commutes, gridlock, road rage and parking nightmares. Somewhere between the myth of the car and the reality of drivers, fall small unexpected epiphanies. Don Mager’s Drive Time captures and honors thirty such moments. Poet Helen Frost (author of Keesha’s House, Braids, and Spinning through the Universe) remarked that these “affectionate” poems capture “a kind of wry enjoyment of the world . . .” His other new book, Birth Daybook, which will be released in April, is the winner of the D-N Publishing Annual Chapbook Contest. Mager has published over 200 poems since 1960.

Lyceum Series
Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 Calendar

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Fall 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - Patrice Gaines, Award Winning Journalist
"The Power of One: Making Change, Making Connections"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Winston Crisp, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
“WE THE PEOPLE . . .
The United States Constitution: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - Dr. Arlie Petters , Mathematician
"Science, Entrepreneurship, and Financial Success"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - Al Young, California State Poet Laureate and Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - Leon Bates, Pianist
Recital
Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.

SPRING 2009

THE FINE ARTS EXAMINE THE MEDICAL ARTS
An Exhibit of Commissioned Paintings about the Training for and the Practice of Medicine and Surgery
Sponsored by The Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois
(Johnson C. Smith students can earn two Lyceum credits by attending the events connected with the Medical Arts Exhibit)
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

EXHIBITION
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
January 12 through January 30, 2009
Edward E. Crutchfield Center for Integrated Studies
HOURS
Monday through Friday, Noon-5:00 p.m.
(Free Parking in Gymnasium Lot, Next to Crutchfield Center)

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - David McKay, Curator; James Fullwood, Johnson C. Smith University Alumnus
"The Fine Arts Examine the Medical Arts"
Lecture

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
William Shakespeare’s
“The Comedy of Errors”
Performed by
The American Shakespeare Center Touring Company
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - Bryan Ferguson, Film Director and Johnson C. Smith Alumnus
"The Death of Murphy"
Charlotte Film Premier and Q&A with Director
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - Dr. Anjail Rashida Ahmad, Poet
Fourteenth Annual World of Words Poetry Festival
Writing Workshop
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
4:00 p.m.
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - Indigo Moor, Poet
Fourteenth World of Words Poetry Festival
Writing Workshop
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
4:00 p.m.
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 27, 2009 - Black Ink Monks Performance Poetry
Fourteenth World of Words Poetry Festival
Public Reading
Sarah Belk Gambrell AuditoriumM
7:30 p.m.

Thursday - Friday, April 2 - 3, 2009 - The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe
JCSU Ira B. Aldridge Drama Guild Performance
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.