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The Langston Hughes Festival’s

THIRD SYMPOSIUM: Lift Every Voice:

[Music, Song, and Lyricism]: Black Lyricism in the African American Poetic Tradition of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes:

In New York City, October 26, 2007 at The City College of New York.

from 8 am to 7:30 pm

We plan stimulating papers on the presence of African American popular music in the poetry of writers such as Paul Laurence Dunbar; Langston Hughes; Sterling Brown; Bob Kaufman; Jayne Cortez; Michael Harper; Amiri Baraka; Sonia Sanchez; Yusef Komunyakaa; Ntozake Shange; Sherley Anne Williams among other African American poets.

Breakfast and lunch will be served with paid registration.

We will round out the day with dinner and a live performance of Langston Hughes’s Tambourines to Glory by The Harlem Repertory Theatre: www.harlemrepertorytheatre.org / SMARTTIX.COM for reservations

Registration Fee: $12-Regular; $6-Students/seniors

Refreshments and a poetry slam with your registration.

Separate Dinner: $12.50

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Among the presenters are Joanne Braxton (Keynoter), Sascha Feinstein, Joanne Gabbin, Eleanor Tignor, John Edgar Tidwell, Joseph Brown, Carlyle V. Thompson, David Chinitz, & Keith Leonard among others.

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