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Monday, February 02, 2009
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Wiley College Public Relations
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WILEY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES SLATED FOR FEB. 19
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Marshall, Texas—The Division of Academic Affairs at Wiley College will host a Distinguished Guest Lecturer as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. in the Julius S. Scott, Sr. Chapel. Quraysh Ali Lansana, tapped as the guest lecturer, is Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University (CSU).
Lansana is the author of They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems (Third World Press, 2004) and the poetry collection Southside Rain (Third World Press, 2000); The Big World, a children's book, (Addison-Wesley, 1999); and two poetry chapbooks, Greatest Hits: 1995-2005 (Pudding House Publications, 2006) and cockroach children: corner poems and street psalms (nappyhead press, 1995). He is the editor of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill's African American Literature Reader (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001), and I Represent and dream in yourself, which are two anthologies of literary works from Chicago's award-winning youth arts employment program, Gallery 37 (Tia Chucha Press, 1996 and 1997, respectively). Lansana is also co-editor of Dream of A Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology (Tia Chucha Press, 2006), and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2002). Poetry from the Masters: The Sixth Wave (Just Us Books, 2008) is forthcoming.
Lansana’s work has been published widely in journals and magazines across the country and internationally, including Callaloo, Meridian, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. In addition to his responsibilities at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing, Lansana is also Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at CSU. He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Quraysh is the former Associate Editor-Poetry for Black Issues Book Review, and sits on the Editorial Board of Tia Chucha Press.
Passage, Lansana’s poetry video collaboration with Kurt Heintz, won the first ever Image Union/Bob Award from WTTW-TV (PBS). He is the recipient of other awards, including: the 2006 Securing the Future Award from ETA Creative Arts Foundation, the 2000 Poet of the Year Award, presented by Chicago's Black Book Fair; the 1999 Henry Blakely Award, presented by Gwendolyn Brooks; and the 1999 Wallace W. Douglas Distinguished Service Award, presented by Young Chicago Authors, Inc.
Lansana earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Creative Writing Program at New York University, where he was a Departmental Fellow. He has been a literary teaching artist and curriculum developer for over a decade and has led workshops in prisons, public schools, and universities in over 30 states.
For more information about the Distinguished Lecture Series, please contact Delicia Daniels at 903-923-9719 or dddaniels@wileyc.edu.
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