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Voices
of the Rainbow: Celebrating the Oral Tradition
Since 1993, the English Department of Long
Island University's Brooklyn Campus has been hosting a series
of poetry and fiction readings entitled "Voices of the
Rainbow: Celebrating the Oral Tradition."
This series, funded by the Brooklyn Campus Provost's Office
and the New York State Council on the Arts, is free and open
to the public.
We have presented over 70 programs, bringing
to our campus such prominent literary figures as Chang-Rae
Lee, Piri Thomas, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake
Shange, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Cristina Garcia, Gloria Naylor,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Fae Myenne Ng, Maryse Conde, Junot Diaz,
Tracie Morris, Jessica Hagedorn, Edwidge Danticat, Ishmael
Reed, and Dorothy Allison.
Click here
for a complete list of past programs, some of which are available
on videotape.
Several programs have been presented in
collaboration with the Department of Teaching and Learning,
the Women's Studies Program, and the English
Club. For the past several years, we have also presented
programs at the East New York and Ridgewood/Bushwick extensions
of the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University.
Watch the English Department blog (The
Longest Island) for announcements of upcoming readings
in this series.
For more information about the series, contact
Louis Parascandola or Maria
McGarrity.
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