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Center for Black Literature
Schedule for 2008
Tribute to Last Poets: Abiodun Oyewole and Don Babatunde
Eaton
Sponsored by Center for Black Literature and Black History
Month Committee
Date: Sunday, February 10, 2008
Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: President’s Conference Center
Medgar Evers College, CUNY
John Edgar Wideman: Book Reading and Discussion:
Fanon
Sponsored by Center for Black Literature and English Department
Date: Sunday, March 9, 2008
Time: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Venue: Brooklyn Public Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, New York
National Black Writers Conference
March 28 -30, 2008
Brooklyn Jazz Consortium Reading and Performance
Saturday, April 12, 2007
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of
Color
July 10 to 13 2008
Program
Descriptions
CUNY ARTS
The Re-Envisioning Ourselves through Literature Program, a
partnership with College Now, CUNY and high schools integrates
the literary arts and the English Language Arts curriculum
to provide students with a dramatic literary writing program,
a children’s multicultural literature program, and/or
a spoken word course
Elders Writing Workshop
This writing workshop, a collaboration between the Center
for Black Literature and Siloam Presbyterian Church, is “intended
to preserve the memoirs of elder African-Americans whose lives
span a major part of the 20th century and beyond.
English BA Program
The Center collaborates with the Medgar Evers College English
BA Program to raise students’ awareness of black literature
and to support student concentrations in professional writing,
creative writing and cross-cultural literature.
National Black Writers Conference (NBWC)
The NBWC, inspired by the late John Oliver Killens in 1986,
brings together writers, critics, book-sellers, book reviewers,
educators, students, and the general public in order to establish
a dialogue on emerging themes, trends and issues in black
literature.
North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of
Color
The North Country Institute and Retreat, a collaboration between
the Center for Black Literature , the English Department at
SUNY, Plattsburgh and the Paden Institute and Retreat for
Writers provides a writing community where established and
emerging writers of color can focus on the craft of writing
and create cross-cultural conversations around the literatures
of people of color.
Professional Development Programs
Using black literature as a perspective from which to improve
reading and writing, the Center partners with high schools
to provide culturally responsive professional development
workshops in writing and literature.
Publishing Certificate Program
The Publishing Certificate Program, sponsored through the
Division of Adult and Continuing Education, provides students
with an awareness of the publishing industry in totality and
the skills to obtain an entry level position.
Writers on Writing Radio Show
Writers on Writing, airs on Sundays over WNYE, 91.5 FM. from
7:00 p.m – 7:30 p.m and provides a forum for emerging
as well as more established writers to discuss their craft
and black literature from a variety of perspectives.
Writers- in- Residence Program
The Writers-in Residence Program provides emerging writers
with support and opportunities to meet other writers, to workshop
their writing, and to discuss issues related to writing and
publishing.
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