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DVDs and Books available now
through the Center for Black Literature.

Ninth National Black Writers Conference - March 2008:
Black Writers Reading and Writing to
Transform Their Lives and the World


For a limited time only:

 Receive an official NBWC 2008 Souvenir Program Booklet* with your DVD order while supplies last!
[Limited 1 per order.]

Complete DVD Set of 11 = $100 

Individual DVDs = $10

$10 Savings when you order the complete DVD Set!

Please see order form for details on shipping and handling.

1.         A Talk with Randall Robinson, Official Conference Opening, Featured Speaker NEW! DVD

2.         A Conversation with Cornel West, with Gloria J Browne-Marshall NEW!DVD

3.         Panel Discussion: Zora Neale Hurston Student Reflection on the Film: Zora is My Name,
Facilitator:
Lindamichelle Baron NEW!-DVD

4.         Conversation: Representations of Male Images in Literature by Black Writers Panelists:William Jelani Cobb, Thomas Glave, Nathan McCall and Kevin Powell
Moderated by
: Patrik Henry Bass NEW! -DVD

5.         Roundtable: Impact of Katrina and 911 on Literature by Black Writers, Panelists: Thulani Davis, Brenda Marie Osbey, Kevin Powell, and Jerry Ward
Moderated by
:  Ron Daniels NEW! -DVD

6.         Panel: Historical Representations of Resistance and Transformation in Black Literature Panelists: Valerie Kinloch, Lawrence Jackson, and Nancy Rawles

Moderated by: Jacqueline Brice-Finch NEW! -DVD

7.         Poetry Reading and Discussion: Thomas Sayers-Ellis, Erica Hunt, Quincy Troupe
Moderated by
: Patricia Spears Jones NEW! -DVD

8.         Panel: Resistance and Reconciliation:  Transforming Our Lives through Narrative Panelists: Honoree Jeffers, Martha Southgate and Eisa Ulen
Moderated by
:  Farah Jasmine Griffith NEW! -DVD

9.         Conversation:  The Impact of Richard Wright on the Literature of Black Writers with Amiri Baraka in conversation with Julia Wright
Moderated by: Robert Reid-Pharr NEW! -DVD

10.      Roundtable: Writers, Editors, Agents, and Publishers on Publishing Black Literature Panelists: Esther Armah, Fred Beauford, Dawn Davis and Tracy Sherrod
Moderated by
: Angela Dodson NEW! -DVD

11.      Conversation: The Politics of Publishing Black Literature with Terry McMillian and Jabari Asim NEW! -DVD

Books Available

12.      Book- Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing Proceedings from the Eighth NBWC 2006 – NEW! Published by Third World Press, Soft cover, 204 pp  

LIST PRICE: $18.95   $15.00- more than a 20 % COVER DISCOUNT 

ISBN-13: 978-0-88378-296-5

ISBN-10: 0-88378-296-0

13.      Book- And Then They Heard Our Thunder Vol. 1-  
Selected Proceedings from the Fifth NBWC , Soft cover        
LIST PRICE: $10.00

Includes a panel discussion on The State of Black Literature with Keith Gilyard, Walter Mosley, Sonia Sanchez, and Ishmael Reed

14.      Book- And Then They Heard Our Thunder Vol. 2
Selected Proceedings from the Sixth NBWC, Soft cover        
LIST PRICE: $10.00

Includes a conversation with Michael Eric Dyson & Joan Morgan

*NBWC 2008 Program booklet contains the full Conference schedule, participating author biographies, s

 


For information about the Center contact:
Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Executive Director
Center for Black Literature
bgreene@mec.cuny.edu
www.mec.cuny.edu/blacklitcenter

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