<div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="background-color:transparent">Please join us to celebrate <b>Black Poetry Day<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"> -- </span>Thursday Oct. 15th at 7:00 PM in Krinovitz Hall<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">. </span></b></span><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="background-color:transparent">This year's poet is Matthew Shenoda. </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Matthew Shenoda is a professor, editor and poet of several collections. His debut poetry collection </span><i style="background-color:transparent">(Somewhere Else</i><span style="background-color:transparent">) received the American Book Award in 2006. He has since published the following collections </span><i style="background-color:transparent">Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone </i><span style="background-color:transparent">(2009); </span><i style="background-color:transparent">Tahir Suite: Poems </i><span style="background-color:transparent">(2015);</span><i style="background-color:transparent"> </i><span style="background-color:transparent">and </span><i style="background-color:transparent">The Way of the Earth</i><span style="background-color:transparent"> (2022). His newest collection, </span><i style="background-color:transparent">Holdings</i><span style="background-color:transparent">, will be released next year. He is also co-editor, with Kwame Dawes, of </span><i style="background-color:transparent">Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden. </i><span style="background-color:transparent">He is the founder of the </span><i style="background-color:transparent">On African Poetry</i><span style="background-color:transparent"> book series. He is Professor and <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">C</span>hair of the Department of Literary Arts and faculty in Africana Studies at Brown University. </span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">His reading</span><span style="background-color:transparent"> is free and open to the public.</span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><img src="cid:ii_muodm0u60" alt="Black Poetry Day 2026.png" width="355" height="456"></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">_____</font></b></div><div><b><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Christine Landry - </font></b><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><b>Administrative Assistant 1</b></span></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><i>Honors Program/Political Science</i></font></div><div><i style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Faculty Senate/Ethics Institute</i></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Hawkins 123 - <a href="tel:(518)%20564-3075" value="+15185643075" target="_blank">518.564.3075</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b><img src="https://web.plattsburgh.edu/files/914/images/SUNY-Plattsburgh-Email-Logo-2018.jpg"><br></b></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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