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The Langston Hughes Festival Symposium

Friday, October 26, 2007 from 8:30 AM to 7:30 PM (ET)

New York, NY

The Langston Hughes Festival Symposium

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Regular Ended $12.00 $0.00
student/senior Ended $6.00 $0.00
Dinner Ended $12.50 $0.00
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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.

An event made possible in part by the

New York Council for the Humanities,

a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Co-sponsored by The Simon H. Rifkind Center of the Division of Humanities of the City College of New York

When & Where



The City College of New York
c/o Prof. Gordon Thompson, English--NAC 6/219
138th Street and Convent Ave
New York, NY 10031

Friday, October 26, 2007 from 8:30 AM to 7:30 PM (ET)


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The Langston Hughes Festival



The City College of New York Gordon Thompson, Director The Langston Hughes Festival, conceived in 1976-1977, is dedicated to hosting award ceremonies in which we welcome to our campus and honor significant writers of poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography and critical essays--such as James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, August Wilson, Nikki Giovanni, and Octavia Butler--whose contributions celebrate the memory and tradition of Langston Hughes.