Poets & Writers
The reading and lecture series lets the best of today’s writers share their secrets with literary aficionados.
Presentations are in the Classroom Building – Room 200. (Free and open to the public)
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 Bakari Kitwana
Monday, April 20th @ 12 – 2 PM in CL 200
Bakari Kitwana is a writer and political analyst whose commentary on politics and youth culture have been seen on CNN, The O’Reilly Factor, C-Span, The Tavis Smiley Show, and heard on NPR.
Kitwana is the author of four books including The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture, The Rap on Gangsta Rap, Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop, and Let’s Get Free: Strategies for Organizing the Hip-Hop Voting Bloc. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Savoy and The Progressive.
He is the Editorial Director of Third World Press, Executive Editor of The Source - the nation’s top-selling music magazine, and organized the first ever National Hip-Hop Political Convention, which brought over 4000 young people to Newark in 2004.
Kitwana has been Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, and is currently Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute for Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College. |
 Craig Padawer
Tuesday, April 28 @ 12 – 2 PM in CL 200
Craig Padawer is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Conjunctions, Fiction International, and After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology . He received his MA in Fiction Writing from Brown University. His novel-in-progress, Sexopolis, is a postmodern exploration of the body as a commodity, a text, a prison, a weapon, and a vehicle for transcendence. Professor Padawer teaches English and Film at Westchester Community
College.
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