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Lucy Terry Prince: Witness, Voice, and Poetics within the American Tradition

May 8 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Free public event presented by the Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. Beginning with Vermonter Lucy Terry Prince, the first known African American poet in the U.S., poet Shanta Lee Gander explores creative lineage within poetics. Surveying the work of Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Rita Dove, and slam poet Dominique Christina, Gander considers the poetic arc from the past to the modern moment.

About the Presenter

Poet Shanta Lee Gander leaning against a tree in Sweet Pond State ParkShanta Lee is the 2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts and was named as Diode Editions’ full-length book contest winner for her debut poetry compilation, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak in Woke Tongues.

Details

Date:
May 8
Time:
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Organizer

Addison County Retired Educators Association
Phone
(802) 475-2580