Dr. Will Verrone, who teaches in the English Department and who is the author of The Avant Garde Feature Film: A Critical History and Adaptation and the Avant Garde, will lecture on Ishmael Reed's work in film and screenwriting on Monday, March 19th at 2 pm in the Loft of the GUC.

 

Tennessee Reed, poet and memoirist, will read from her poetry on March 20th, at 11 am in the Performance Center of the GUC. Her collections include: City Beautiful, Airborne, and Electric Chocolate.

 

Ishmael Reed, fiction writer, poet, playwright, essayist, and commentator will read from his works on March 20th at 12:30 pm in the Performance Center of the GUC. Two of Ishmael Reed's books have been nominated for National Book Awards;  a book of poetry, Conjure, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; he became a MacArthur Fellow in 1998; and the Gale Research Company cites his "Beware Do Not Read This Poem" as one of the approximately twenty poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Harold Bloom designated Mumbo Jumbo as one of the 500 most important books of the Western canon.

 

A booksigning and reception will follow at 2pm in the Banquet Hall.

For more information: call the English Department at (256) 765-4238.