Photograph of Langston Hughes by James Allen
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| National & Regional Partners | Sponsors | Contributors | Poetry Circle Sites | Speakers Bureau | |
National & Regional Partners |
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| National Endowment for the Humanities | National Council of Teachers of English |
| The American Academy of Poets | The Langston Hughes Society |
| Kansas Humanities Council | The American Jazz Museum |
| The University of Kansas Audio Reader Network | |
Sponsors
Contributors |
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| Advanco, Inc. Alvamar, Inc. American Jazz Museum Barnes and Noble Borders Charlton Manley, Inc. Coldwell Banker/McGrew Real Estate Community Mercantile Douglas County Bank Free State Brewing Company Ed Grier John and Nancy Hiebert Kansas Key Press Langston Hughes Society Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau Lawrence Public Library KANU-FM 91.5 Karl and Mildred McKenzie Midwest Graphics Midwest Transportation Services Peoples Bank |
The Raven Bookstore St. Luke AME Church Stephens Real Estate, Inc. The University of Kansas African/African American Studies African Studies Resource Center Center for East Asian Studies Center for Russian and East European Studies Dean of Libraries Department of American Studies Department of East Asian Languages Department of English Department of Spanish and Portuguese Equal Opportunity Office KU Bookstores KU Continuing Education Multicultural Resource Center Office of Multicultural Affairs Spencer Museum of Art Spencer Research Library Student Union Activities Theater and Film USD 497—Lawrence Public Schools |
Poetry Circle Sites |
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| Location | Contact Information |
| Arts Corp Wichita 2755 E. 19th Street, Wichita, KS 67214 |
Maaskelah Chenyere-Jeng, mjeng@wichita.gov 316 303-8083 Rhea Jones, missfbf@hotmail.com James Simms, bblovd@hotmail.com |
| Audio Reader Network University of Kansas |
Janet Campbell, jcampbell@ku.edu 1707 Oak, Eudora, KS 66025 785 864-4603 |
| Detroit School System |
Loretta G. Woodard, lwoodard@marygrove.edu Marygrove College 8425 W McNichols Road, Detroit, MI 48221-2599 313 927-1452; fax: 313-927-1345 (work) fax: 313-345-2383 (home) |
| Douglas County Jail Lawrence, KS |
Brian Daldorph, briandal@ku.edu University of Kansas English Department Room 3114, Wescoe Hall 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045 785 864-4520 |
| Enoch Pratt Public Library Enoch Pratt Free Library 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 |
Reginald Harris, rharris@epfl.net 410 545-6341 Judy Cooper, jcooper@epfl.net 410 396-5494 Margaret Reid, mreid@jewel.morgan.edu Dept. of English, Holmes Hall 209 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251 410 319-3166 |
| Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club |
Howard Rambsy, hrambsy@siue.edu |
| Haskell University Library/Tommaney Library Lawrence, KS |
Pamela Dawes, pdawes@haskell.edu 155 Indian Avenue, Box 5013, Lawrence, KS 66046 785 749-8470 |
| Humanities Council of Washington D.C. 925 U Street, NW, Washington D.C. 20001 |
Shana Young 202 387-8391 fax: 202 387-8149 |
| Kansas City Public Library, Southeast Branch |
Gabriele Otto, gabiotto@kclibrary.org 6242 Swope Pkwy, Kansas City, MO 64130 816 701-3600 |
| Langston Hughes Community Library Corona, NY |
Andrew P. Jackson, ajackson@queenslibrary.org 25-14 97th Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11369 718 651-1100 |
| Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center 104 17th Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98144 |
Manuel Cawaling, manuel.cawaling@seattle.gov 206 684-4757 Jacqueline Moscou, jacqueline.moscou@seattle.gov 206 684-4710 |
| Malcolm X Public Library 1416 Montera Street Chula Vista, CA 91913 |
Theresa Ford, theresa.ford@gcccd.net 619 644-7218 |
| MoorEpics: The Poetry Planet |
Jessica Care Moore, jessicamo7@hotmail.com Moore Black Press Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 10545, Atlanta, GA 30310 404 753-6583 West End Performing Arts Center 945 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. Atlanta, GA 30310 |
| Ninth Street Baptist Church 901 Tennessee, Lawrence, KS 66044 St. Luke A.M.E. Church 900 New York, Lawrence, KS 66044 |
Reta Cosby, retacpyn@sbcglobal.net 785 842-2204 Joyce McCray Pearson, jpearson@ku.edu 200C Green Hall 785 864-3025 |
| Nommo Literary Society New Orleans, LA |
Kalamu Ya Salaam, kalamu@aol.com P.O. Box 52723, New Orleans, LA 70152 504 710-9694 |
| Point Loma High School 2335 Chatsworth Boulevard San Diego, CA 92106 |
Tchaiko Kwayana, tkwayana@sdcoe.k12.ca.us 619 223-3121 |
| Sankofa Bird, Inc. San Diego, CA |
Tchaiko Kwayana, tkwayana@sdcoe.k12.ca.us P.O. Box 2966, National City, CA 91951-2966 619 223-3121 |
| St. Ignatius College Prep High School, 1076 W. Roosevelt Road Chicago, IL 60608 |
Robert A. Harris, tony.harris@ignatius.org 312 421-5900 |
| University of Florida Gainesville, FL |
Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston, marilyth@anthro.ufl.edu Turlington Hall B372 Gainesville, FL 32611 352 392-2253 Ext. 241 352 392-5724 |
| Van Go Mobile Arts 715 New Jersey Lawrence, KS. 66044 |
Heather Hoy, hhoy@sunflower.com 913 841-3711 |
Completed Poetry Circles |
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| Topeka Public Library, Topeka , KS: Susan Marchant
Northwest Library System, Norton , KS: Ann Bailey Hays Public Library, Hays, KS: Ann Millhollen Bowlus Fine Arts Center , Iola , KS: Mary Martin Independence Public Library, Independence , KS: Cheryl Greer Lawrence Public Library, Lawrence , KS: Sandra Wiechert Shook, Hardy & Bacon, KC, KS: Mary Beth Blake, bblake@shb.com Kean University , Union , NJ: Sarah Ducksworth NCTE, Urbana , IL: Sandra Gibbs, sgibbs@ncte.org |
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Speakers Bureau |
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Each speaker has either been trained professionally and teaches and/or writes about Hughes and American poetry or is a practicing poet with national visibility and record of publication. Ethnic and regional diversity has also been an important consideration in the invitations we have extended to poets and scholars.
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Contact Info: Vinie Burrows is an actor, producer/writer, and social activist. She has appeared on Broadway and has also created, produced, directed, and starred in a repertoire of one-woman shows that have been sponsored on more than 6000 college campuses. For her social activism, the Actors Equity Association conferred on her their distinguished Paul Robeson Award for her commitment to human rights and her use of the arts to create understanding and respect for diversity. Ms. Burrows's social and political impact expanded when she was accredited to the United Nations as the Permanent Representative for the Women's International Democratic Federation
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Contact Info: E. Ethelbert Miller is current chairman and a founding member of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. He is the director of the Center for African American Resources at Howard University, where he earned his Master's degree. He is also a commissioner for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. An editor, poet, and author, his most recent book is a memoir, Fathering Words: The Making of An African American Writer, published by St. Martin 's Press. Contact Info: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is an associate professor of English at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, where she is also the director of the Transformative Language Arts master's degree program. Her PhD is from the University of Kansas. The author of several books, including Lot's Wife (Woodley Press, 1999) and Write Where You Are: How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life (Free Spirit Press, 1999), she gives poetry readings and conducts workshops in literature, creative writing, and poetry therapy across the country. Contact Info:
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Contact Info: Mary Kay Ricks is a freelance writer, history tour guide, and lecturer. She received her Juris Doctor from the Antioch School of Law. She has researched and designed unique insider walking tours in the Washington, D.C. area, including themed walks in Georgetown, that highlight the history of its once-vibrant black community, and in Dupont Circle, where a roster of African-American luminaries lived in the 1920s. She has written more than 20 articles for Microsoft's Sidewalk.com on heritage travel in the Washington, D.C. area. Contact Info: Barbara Ryan is an assistant professor of English, American studies, and black studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Her PhD is from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her recent publications include an essay on black servitude, and she coedited Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interactions with Literature, 1800-1950 (forthcoming, University of Tennessee Press). She gives statewide presentations on Langston Hughes and Mark Twain for the Kansas Humanities Council. Contact Info:
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Contact Info: Jerry W. Ward Jr. is a professor of English at Dillard University in New Orleans. He is the co-editor of several books, including Redefining American Literary History (MLA, 1990), Black Southern Voices (New American Library, 1992), and the editor of Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry (Mentor , 1997). He is also the author of numerous articles and essays. Contact Info: Val Ward is an activist, actor, producer, director, lecturer, and founder and artistic director of the Kuumba Theatre, the oldest continuous black theatre in Chicago. In her most recent historically based one-woman show, "My Soul Is a Witness," she performs 17 characters and also does jazz, folk, blues, and gospel solo. For her commitment to the theater and for her long and successful performing career, she has received more than 100 awards. Contact Info:
Contact Info: Additional Speakers Bureau members may include Kevin Young, Mary Kinzie, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Dennis Nurkse in a special arrangement with Knoph Books. Please contact us if you are interested in one of the above writers, since we have not negotiated a special rate with them. |
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Elmaz Abinader teaches creative writing at Mills College . He is an author and poet whose works include In the Country of My Dreams . . . (Sufi Warrior Publishing, 1999), The Children of the Roojme, a Family's Journey from Lebanon (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), and The Children of the Roojme, a Family's Journey (W.W. Norton & Co., 1991). He has two forthcoming books, an anthology of contemporary Middle Eastern American writing and On a Summer Night. 
Emily E. Bernard is an assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont, Burlington. Her PhD is from Yale University. She is the editor of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 (Knopf, 2001); and the author of "What He Did for the Race: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance" in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (winter 1977); and "African-American Literature" in Michele Stepto, ed., The African-American Experience (Research Publications International, 1995). 
Brian Daldorph is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kansas. His PhD is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published several books of poetry, including Outcasts (Mid-America Press, 2000) and The Holocaust and Hiroshima: Poems (Mid-America Press, 1997). In addition to writing and teaching, he has worked with the Douglas County Jail, Lawrence Arts Center, and the Johnson County Adolescent Center for Treatment as a creative writing instructor. 
Christopher C. DeSantis is an assistant professor of American and African American literature at Illinois State University. His PhD is from the University of Kansas. He is the author and editor of articles, reviews, and books, including Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62 (University of Illinois, 1995) and editor of Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP, by Langston Hughes (University of Missouri Press , 2001) and Collected Essays of Langston Hughes (University of Missouri Press, 2002). 
Martin Espada is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law. A prolific poet, he has published several books of poetry, including A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen (W.W. Norton, 2000), Imagine the Angels of Bread (W.W. Norton, 1996), and City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (W.W. Norton, 1993).
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Joy Harjo is a professor of English and American Indian studies at UCLA. In addition to conducting poetry readings and writing workshops across the country, her six-year term as a Presidential appointment to the National Council on the Arts began in October 1998. She was the recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North American in 1998 for her work with Gloria Bird on Reinventing the Enemy's Language.
Dolan Hubbard is professor and chair at the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University, Baltimore. His PhD is from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is the current president of the Langston Hughes Society and is coediting the seventeen-volume The Complete Works of Langston Hughes (University of Missouri Press, 2001). He is also the author of The Sermon and the African American Literary Imagination (University of Missouri Press, 1994).
Jessica Care Moore is an actor, poet, playwright, activist, and publisher. She is the author of the play Alpha Phobia, The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth (Moore Black Press, 1997) and the forthcoming The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto. Moore is also the co-owner of MoorEpics: The Poetry Planet, a performance space for music, theater, and poetry in Downtown Atlanta. She has performed for international audiences in London, Scotland, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, and the United States, as well as on television for It's Showtime at the Apollo.
Willie Perdomo is an author and lecturer whose works include Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (W.W. Norton) and the children's book, Visiting Langston (Henry Holt/Books for Young Readers). He has read and lectured at venues across the United States and Europe and has also been featured on several PBS documentaries, including "Words in Your Face" and "The United States of Poetry." He performed on the recording Flippin' the Script: Rap Meets Poetry (Mouth Almighty Records/Mercury). 
Kevin Powell is a poet, journalist, essayist, public speaker, hip-hop historian, political activist, and TV, radio, and Internet commentator. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications such as Newsweek, Code, Rolling Stone, Essence, The Washington Post, and Vibe, where he worked as a senior writer for several years, interviewing prominent figures such as Colin Powell, feminist scholar Dr. bell hooks, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Spike Lee, Aaliyah, Suge Knight, and, most famously, the late Tupac Shakur on several occasions. 
Kalamu Ya Salaam is a professional editor/writer, producer, filmmaker, and arts administrator. His recent books are the anthologies From a Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets (Runagate Press 1998) and 360º A Revolution of Black Poets (BlackWords Press 1998). He is the leader of The WordBand, a performance poetry ensemble, and his latest spoken-word CD is My Story, My Song (AFO Records). As a producer and writer, he has worked in many media, including radio, music, and theater. 
Whitney Terrell is a lecturer and writer in residence at Rockhurst University. His novels include The Huntsman (Viking Penguin, 2001), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the forthcoming Neverland. He currently serves as the director of the Novelists Reading Novels Series and the Student Reading Series, both at Rockhurst University .
Carmaletta M. Williams