Metta S. Sáma, Poet
(Formerly Lydia Melvin)

Thursday, March 27

Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108
Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.

Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
Public Reading
7:30 p.m. 

Metta Sáma (previously Lydia Melvin) is author of South of Here (New Issues Press, 2005), which was a finalist in the Yale Younger Series Award, the Paris Review Prize, the Stan and Tom Wick First Book Prize, and a finalist for the Kenyon Review Book Prize. Sáma is a former recipient of the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at University of Wisconsin's Center for Creative Learning, a Cave Canem Fellow, and has received her M.A. and M.F.A. in creative writing, respectively, from Western Michigan University. Her Ph.D. dissertation (SUNY-Binghamton, 2007), Venus in Limbo, was a finalist for the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize.  She is currently a visiting assistant professor at DePauw University and at work on two collections: Efface Me, a book of poems that examines parasitic invasions, erasures, and the nature of bodily disintegration as poetic practice; and The Black Odyssey, a collection of poems about the loves and lives of African Americans in the 1930s-1960s in the South, as well as how the landscape of the South mirrored the lives of African Americans and Native Americans who lived there. She has won research grants from the Newman Foundation and scholarships from the Napa Valley Writer's Conference and the Juniper Summer Writer's Conference to work on these collections.

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.