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November 7, 2005

 

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UA to Host ‘Visualizing Black Writers’ Photo Exhibit
These images of Amiria Baraka and Sonia Sanchez will be featured in a photo exhibit from the Eugene B. Redmond Collection on display at UA Nov. 10- Dec. 5.

These images of Amiria Baraka and Sonia Sanchez will be featured in a photo exhibit from the Eugene B. Redmond Collection on display at UA Nov. 10- Dec. 5.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The University of Alabama will host the photo exhibit “Visualizing Black Writers: An Extra-literary Exhibit” from the Eugene B. Redmond Collection, Nov. 10-Dec. 5, on the second floor of Gorgas Library.

The exhibit is curated by Howard Rambsy II and sponsored by the UA English department.

As a part of the event, a poetry reading will be held on Friday, Nov. 18, at 4 p.m. in Morgan Hall Auditorium, followed by a reception at 5 p.m. on the second floor of Gorgas Library.

Eugene B. Redmond is a professor of English, founding editor of Drumvoices Revue and chairman of the Creative Writing Committee at Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville. He has authored or edited more than 25 volumes of poetry, collections of diverse writings and plays for stage and television.

In 1976, he was named Poet Laureate of East Saint Louis, Ill., and also that year he published the best-selling, critical history “Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry.”

For more information on this exhibit, contact Carolyn Handa at 205/348-8503, cphanda@ua.edu, or Melinda Fields at 205/348-6488, mfields@english.as.ua.edu.