<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="times new roman, serif">Monday, October 17th is Black Poetry Day. </font></b><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">This year's poet, Dr. Roger Reeves, will be reading from his poetry in Krinovitz Hall beginning at 7:00 PM.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Dr. Roger Reeves earned a B.A .in English from Morehouse College and an M.A. from Texas A & M University. He has an MFA and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"> t</span> the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently an associate professor of English at University of Texas, Austin.<br></font></div><div><p style="line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">Dr. Reeves’ work has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and the Suzanne Young Murray Fellowship at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Radcliffe_Institute" title="Harvard Radcliffe Institute" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:windowtext">Harvard Radcliffe<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span></span></a></font><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Radcliffe_Institute" title="Harvard Radcliffe Institute" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"times new roman",serif" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:windowtext">Institute</span></a><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">. He is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the 2015 Whiting Award winner. His debut collection of poems, </span><i style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">King Me</i><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. W.W. Norton published his second collection of poems, </span><i style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Best Barbarian</i><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"> this year, and the work is now a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. Copies of</span><i style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"> Best Barbarian</i><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"> will be available at the reading. We hope you can join us for this event.</span></p><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><font face="times new roman, serif">--<br></font><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Dr. Tracie Church Guzzio</font><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Director, Redcay Honors Program</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Professor, Dept. of English</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Africana Studies</font></div><div><a href="mailto:guzziotc@plattsburgh.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><font face="times new roman, serif">guzziotc@plattsburgh.edu</font></a></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">518-564-3075</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><img src="https://web.plattsburgh.edu/files/914/images/SUNY-Plattsburgh-Email-Logo-2018.jpg"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div>
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