This event is free and unticketed. Masks required for all patrons. Unmasked performers will be tested for Covid19 immediately before the performance. Susan Lilley is a Florida native and is currently serving as Orlando’s inaugural Poet Laureate. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, The Southern Review, Drunken Boat, Saw Palm, Hippocampus, The ...
The 2022-2023 Sidore Lecture Series focuses on Building Justice in our communities and our world, today and beyond. What is social justice? What would that look like? Who benefits from social justice and who benefits from resisting it?Lectures will explore the broad spectrum of justice issues facing us today and how we can modify society towards a more “just” future. ...
Speaker: Viniece Jennings, Ph.D. Dr. Viniece Jennings is a purpose driven scholar, educator, and environmental professional. Her innovative research on urban green spaces and health was recognized as top research for practice by the National Recreation and Parks Association. She has published in multiple journals such as Nature Communications and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. She ...
The Civil Rights Fighters of Our Time For every client's criminal charge, there are other problems that call for repair. The client has a circle of loved ones - partners and children and parents and employers who enter into the equation, too. Public defender professionals are in the lion’s den with their clients witnessing and pushing back on a broad ...
NAACP Image Award in Poetry finalist, poet and editor Allison Joseph will read from her most recent poetry collections Lexicon and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, both from Red Hen Press, as well as from newer work. Of the poems in Lexicon, Lee-Ann Roripaugh writes that they “hum, croon, and belt out their refrains with heartbreaking candor, shimmer, and sashay--revealing a poet so ...
Decolonizing and Indigenizing Environmental Justice As the topic of environmental justice has gained greater currency in the US with growing environmental and racial concerns, scholars are refining what EJ means in various communities. For American Indians environmental injustice begins with the history of invasion, genocide, and land theft, as Dina Gilio-Whitaker writes about in her acclaimed 2019 book As Long As ...
Building Global Justice in the Face of Mass Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity, and Genocide. The global community has been shocked by recent accusations of mass atrocities, crimes against humanity, and genocide in places like Ukraine, China, and Myanmar. Considering these developments, the discussion will trace the development of international responses and tools to address these crimes at the global level. ...
Frost Place Poetry Seminar Director, poet and translator Patrick Donnelly will read from his poetry collections Little-Known Operas, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, and The Charge, as well as from newer work. From the sexual abandon of the 1980s gay demimonde, to a New England mill town whose mill has closed, to a mother’s decline into mental illness, Nocturnes of the Brothel of ...
The world is a fascinating place! The 2023-24 Sidore Lecture series will explore how curiosity and creativity feed passion for life. 9/14/2023 Trevor ChandlerGetting Along Is Boring, Let’s Fight: Embrace Conflict and Live the Most Interesting Life Political toxicity and polarization continue to strain our institutions and civic cohesiveness with studies showing less trust between Republicans and Democrats than between ...
Cheryl Savageau will read from her poetry collections Dirt Road Home and Mother/Land, which explore facets of New England / Indigenous place and identity. Siobhan Senier writes, in Studies in American Indian Literature, that Savageau’s poetry “comes out of a long line of Abenaki writing traceable all the way back to the precontact birchbark maps called awikhiganak” and “challenges readers ...
Internal Alchemy & External Play Birth the Curiously Engaged Life How Self-Creation and Inquiry Come together in Shanta Lee's World of Images, Words and Life Practice What is the internal alchemy needed to engage in a curious life? How can the concept of engaging with the unknown, unseen and intangible co-mingle with ideas of self creation through the mediums of ...
Iranian American poet Farnaz Fatemi will read from her award-winning 2022 collection, Sister Tongue, as well as from new work. The poems in Sister Tongue explore negative spaces—the distance between twin sisters, between lovers, between Farsi and English, between the poet’s upbringing in California and her family in Iran. In her foreword to the book, former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy ...