Robert Hayden/Dudley Randall Centennial Celebration · Kevin Gaines, jessica Care moore, and Terry...
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SYMPOSIUM Wednesday, April 2 nd WSU Law School’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Includes roundtable discussions featuring Al Young, Bill Harris, Melba Joyce Boyd, Frank Rashid, Todd Duncan, Laurence Goldstein, Frederick Glaysher, Tony Medina, Kevin Gaines, jessica Care moore, and Terry Blackhawk. Film clips and conversation about The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press and Austere and Lonely Offices: The Poetry of Robert Hayden film project will be included. POETRY READING Thursday, April 3 rd Bernath Auditorium WSU’s David Adamany Undergraduate Library 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The personal connection to Hayden and Randall’s poetry will be read and discussed by poets Al Young, Melba Joyce Boyd, Adrian Matejka, Frederick Glaysher, Tony Medina, Terry Blackhawk, Naomi Long Madgett, Bill Harris, Laurence Goldstein, jessica Care moore, Caroline Maun, and M.L. Liebler. Jazz bassist Marion Hayden, The Magic Poetry Band, and students from the InsideOut Literary Arts Project are also featured. ACADEMY OF SCHOLARS The poetry of two of Wayne State University’s most famous alumni brought attention to the city of Detroit and the accomplishments of African American culture and history. For National Poetry Month, a stellar list of poets and scholars convene to celebrate the impact of these two internationally renowned writers. Free and open to the public. Receptions will follow each event. For more information call: 313-577-2321 or consult: clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/haydenrandall100 SPONSORS Robert Hayden/Dudley Randall Centennial Celebration April 2-3, 2014 Dudley Randall (1914-2000) Robert Hayden (1913-1980) Art by Hubert Massey WSU Departments of Africana Studies, English, History, Urban Studies and Urban Planning, and Labor Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights in the WSU Law School; WSU Library System; WSU Humanities Center; King Chavez Parks Fund in the WSU Office of the Graduate School; WSU Academy of Scholars; WSU Office of the Vice President of Government and Community Affairs; Marygrove College Department of English and Modern Languages and Institute for Detroit Studies
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SYMPOSIUMWednesday, April 2nd
WSU Law School’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Includes roundtable discussions featuring Al Young, Bill Harris, Melba Joyce Boyd, Frank Rashid, Todd Duncan, Laurence Goldstein, Frederick Glaysher, Tony Medina, Kevin Gaines, jessica Care moore, and Terry Blackhawk. Film clips and conversation about The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press and Austere and Lonely Offices: The Poetry of Robert Hayden film project will be included.
POETRY READINGThursday, April 3rd
Bernath Auditorium WSU’s David Adamany Undergraduate Library
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The personal connection to Hayden and Randall’s poetry will be read and discussed by poets Al Young, Melba Joyce Boyd, Adrian Matejka, Frederick Glaysher, Tony Medina, Terry Blackhawk, Naomi Long Madgett, Bill Harris, Laurence Goldstein, jessica Care moore, Caroline Maun, and M.L. Liebler. Jazz bassist Marion Hayden, The Magic Poetry Band, and students from the InsideOut Literary Arts Project are also featured.
ACADEMY OF SCHOLARS
The poetry of two of Wayne State University’s most famous alumni brought attention to the city of Detroit and the accomplishments of African American culture and history. For National Poetry Month, a stellar list of poets and scholars convene to celebrate the impact of these two internationally renowned writers.
Free and open to the public. Receptions will follow each event. For more information call: 313-577-2321 or consult: clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/haydenrandall100
SPONSORS
Robert Hayden/Dudley Randall Centennial Celebration
April 2-3, 2014
Dudley Randall (1914-2000)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Art by Hubert Massey
WSU Departments of Africana Studies, English, History, Urban Studies and Urban Planning, and Labor Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights in the WSU Law School; WSU Library System; WSU Humanities Center; King Chavez Parks Fund in the WSU Office of the Graduate School; WSU Academy of Scholars; WSU Office of the Vice President of Government
and Community Affairs; Marygrove College Department of English and Modern Languages and Institute for Detroit Studies
