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The 21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Conference for Black Literature and Creative Writing
Title: An Exceeding Sun: The 21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference
Dates: April 7-9, 2011
Primary Conference Date:
Saturday April 9, 2011, 10 am- 10 pm
Location:
Rotunda of the Cordell Reed Student Union Building
Chicago State University
9501 S. King Drive
Admission: Free
Detailed Schedule
Thursday, April 7, 2011
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Douglas Hall ~ Breakey Theater
World Premiere of The Faggot Who Could Fly
Written and Performed by: KOKUMO
Friday, April 8, 2011
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Douglas Hall ~ Breakey Theater
Words @ War Open Mic Poetry Competition
Host: Amaris Howard
Saturday, April 9, 2011
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Continental Breakfast
10:00 a.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Welcome ~ Quraysh Ali Lansana, Director, Gwendolyn Brooks Center
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
MFA Student Reading
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Fiction Reading ~ Sandra Jackson-Opoku & Nnedi Okorafor
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Featured Reading ~ Ifa Bayeza
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Keynote Speaker: Lawrence P. Jackson
Introduced by Brenda Eatmon Aghahowa
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Black & Brown: A Dialogue in Verse
Moderator: Pancho McFarland
Panelists: Duriel Harris, Paul Martinez Pompa, Kristiana Rae Colon, Ra Shelton
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Featured Reading: Thomas Sayers Ellis
4:00 p.m. – 5: 30 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Affrilachian Poets: Writing Black Country
Moderator: Kelly Norman Ellis
Panelists: Nikkey Finney, Mitchell L.H. Douglas, Parneshia Jones
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Dinner
7:00 p.m. – 7:40 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Gwendolyn Brooks Reception
Music by the CSU Student Jazz Band
7:45 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Gwendolyn Brooks Spotlight Reading ~ Nikky Finney
8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
CSU Faculty Jazz Band w/ Guest Poets Amaris Howard & Ra Shelton
9:30 p.m.
Student Union Building ~ Rotunda
Closing Comments
Dr. Leroy Jones
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago State University
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