Public Fiction Project

If any of you want to attend the creative writing event next Wed (see below), you may count it as your Public Fiction Project. If you'd like to read, let me know and I'll tell Prof. Tayson.

 Original Message:

Dear friends and colleagues,

As many of you know, today marks the inauguration of three weeks of on-campus activities designed to enhance this year’s Common Read.  As our students read and discuss Picking Cotton:  Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, they have the opportunity to participate in many collaborative events.  One such activity is “Self, World and Poems that Ask Forgiveness:  An Interactive Event,” to which you and your students are cordially invited.

Wednesday, March 9

12:10 – 2

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In an open forum meant to address violence, forgiveness, reconciliation, (the Oscars?), and redemption in today’s world, Ben Miller will lead a writing activity, and Danielle Izzo-Buckner and I will read from our work and the works of poets as diverse as Nazim Hikmet, Lucille Clifton, William Blake, and Adrienne Rich.  Students and faculty alike will be provided an opportunity to read works brought to the event as well as those written during our time together. 

If you or your students would like to read, let me know, and I’ll add your names to the ongoing list.

Our aim is to generate community exchange via the written and spoken word—so feel free to pass along this information to students, other faculty, and staff (an event poster will soon magically appear in your mailboxes).

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you on March 9.

All the best,

Richard Tayson