Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Nationally known poet and author Sonia Sanchez will discuss and read from her works Thursday [March 4] at Mississippi State.
Sponsored by the university's African American Studies, the free program begins at 4 p.m. in the McCool Hall, Room 100. A book-signing will follow.
In 2001, Sanchez received the Robert Frost Medal, one of the nation's highest artistic recognitions. She is the author of more than two dozen books, plays and poetry collections, including "Homegirls and Handgrenades" (2007, White Pine Press), winner of an American Book Award.
A political science graduate of New York's Hunter College, Sanchez has been a leading voice since the 1960s in civil and human rights struggles, and is closely associated with the Black Arts movement.
Before retiring, she was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University, where she also held the Laura Carnell Chair in English at the Philadelphia, Pa., institution. (For more, visit http://aalbc.com/authors/sonia.htm.)
For more information, contact Linda Harrell at 662-325-0587 or lharrell@aas.msstate.edu
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