<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Black Poetry Day Tuesday, Oct. 19th at Krinovitz Hall in Hawkins Hall beginning at 7:00 PM</b><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Evie Shockley will be our visiting poet this year for Black Poetry Day. </b></div><div><br></div><div>Black Poetry Day celebrates the work of African-American poets in honor of the first published African-American poet, Jupiter Hammon (a former slave from Long Island, NY). The day was officially recognized by the New York legislation in 2018 in honor of Hammon's legacy. The event was established in the 1970s by Stan Ransom, a librarian in Long Island at the time. When Ransom moved to Plattsburgh, the celebration continued at the Clinton-Essex-Franklin libraries. Today, SUNY Plattsburgh hosts the event -- a program made possible with funds from the New York State Writers Institute, the Redcay Honors program, and with the sponsorship of the Plattsburgh College Foundation, through charitable gifts to the President's Office and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Shockley currently teaches creative writing and African-American literature at Rutgers University in New Jersey.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span>She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, and the winner of numerous prizes including the Holmes National Poetry Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2018. Her books include <i>semiautomatic</i> and <i>the new black.</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr. Tracie Church Guzzio<div>Director, Redcay Honors Program</div><div>Professor, Dept. of English</div><div>Africana Studies</div><div><a href="mailto:guzziotc@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank">guzziotc@plattsburgh.edu</a></div><div>518-564-3075</div><div><img src="https://web.plattsburgh.edu/files/914/images/SUNY-Plattsburgh-Email-Logo-2018.jpg"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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