Twelfth Annual World of Words
Poetry Festival
Reginald Shepherd, Poet
Tues., Mar. 27
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108:
Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium: Public Reading
7:30 p.m.
 |
|
Reginald Shepherd |
Reginald Shepherd received his bachelor’s from Bennington
College in 1988 and a masters of fine arts from Brown University and
University of Iowa. The University of Pittsburg Press published his
first book, Some Are Drowning, in 1994 as winner of the 1993
AWP Award Series in Poetry. Pittsburgh published his second book,
Angel, Interrupted, in 1996; it was a finalist for a 1997 Lambda
Literary Award. His chapbook, This History of His Body, was
published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1999.
Shepherd is the recipient of a 1993 "Discovery" / The Nation
Award, a 1993 Paumanok Poetry Award, the 1994-1995 Amy Lowell
Poetry Traveling Scholarship, a 1998 Illinois Arts Council poetry
fellowship, and a 2000 Saltonstall Foundation poetry grant. His
poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Conjunctions,
The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The
Nation, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Partisan
Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, TriQuarterly, and The Yale
Review, as well as in the 1995, 1996, 2000, and 2002 editions of
The Best American Poetry.
Return to Lyceum home page |
Lyceum Series
Fall 2006 - Spring 2007 Calendar
Click on speaker's name for more information.
Tues., Sept. 12 — Dr. Ronald Rochon
"The Wake-up Call"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thurs., Sept. 21 — William Robinson
"Diabetes - What to Know from Head to Toe"
Diabetes Year Speaker
Johnson C. Smith University Collaboration with the Carolinas
Association for Community Health Equity (CACHE)
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Fri., Oct. 27 — The Young Eight
"The String Ensemble"
Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.
Thurs., Nov. 9 — Ten to One
A collection of films by Cara Marisa Deleon
Movie Showing and Lecture
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wed., Nov. 15 — James McLurkin
"Robotics Engineer"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
SPRING 2007
Wed., Jan. 24 — Eleganza
Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.
Tues., Jan. 30 — "COTO: Chocolate On The Outside"
Play by April Turner
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Thurs., Feb. 8 — Black History Month Presentation
Calvin Levels
Solo Actor Performance
"James Baldwin: Down from the Mountaintop"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Tues., Feb. 27 — Black History Month Presentation
Eytan Uslan, Pianist and David Shadinger, Chorus
Pianist and the Gold Standard Chorus Performance
With Lecture on the Origin of Barbershop Quartets and Ragtime Music
Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.
Thurs., Mar. 8 — Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley
"Historian of Black Popular Culture"
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Tues., Mar. 27 — Twelfth Annual World of Words Poetry Festival
Reginald Shepherd, Poet
Lionel H. Newsome Humanities Building, Room 108: Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium: Public Reading
7:30 p.m.
Thurs., Mar. 29 — Twelfth Annual World of Words Poetry Festival
Evie Shockley, Poet
Lionel H. Newsom Humanities Building, Room 108: Writing Workshop
4:00 p.m.
Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium: Public Reading
7:30 p.m.
Fri., Mar. 30 — Twelfth Annual World of Words Poetry Festival
Black Ink Monks
Performance Poetry
Grimes Lounge, University Memorial Student Union
7:30 p.m.
Thurs., Apr. 5 — Faculty Showcase
Bruce A. Thompson
Bass-Baritone Vocal Recital
Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
7:30 p.m.
Thurs. and Fri., Apr. 12 & 13 — JCSU Ira B. Aldridge
Drama Guild Performance
The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe
CANCELLED
|
