“Rainbow” Authors Relate Diverse Tales\
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus in October

Brooklyn, N.Y. —Three authors of differing backgrounds will read from their works at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus in October, as part of the English Department’s multicultural “Voices of the Rainbow” poetry and fiction reading series.

South Carolina native Dorothy Allison will narrate her stories onWednesday, October 13, at noon in Library Learning Center (LLC) Room 124. The event is free and open to the public. 

Allison is the author of the short-story collection, “Trash.” Her other works include “The Women Who Hate Me,” a volume of poetry; “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature,” a book of essays; and “Bastard out of Carolina,” an award-winning and bestselling novel.

Tracy K.  Smith and Tina Chang will discuss their works at a free reading on Tuesday, October 19, at noon, in LLC Room 124.

Smith’s “The Body's Question” won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Boulevard, Callaloo, and PN Review. Chang, recipient of a 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, recently published her first book of poems, “Half-Lit Houses.” Her poems have appeared in venues such as Asian Pacific American Journal, Indiana Review and Ploughshares.

The “Voices of the Rainbow” series is funded by the office of Provost Gale Stevens Haynes. For more information, call (718) 488-1109.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 31,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including more than 12,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.