Description: | Location: Arts & Literature Division, 1st floor Rundel Memorial Building
Please join us in celebration of African American History Month as we read and discuss a selection of important African-American texts from the 1920s to the present. Our meeting dates are Mondays, February 6, 13, 20, 27 and March 6.
Free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration is required. Please register here or contact Carol Moldt at Carol.Moldt@libraryweb.org or (585) 428-8375.
Week 1 (February 6):
Selected poems by Langston Hughes.
Week 2 (February 13):
“Notes of a Native Son” by James Baldwin, from his collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son.
Week 3 (February 20):
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the poem by the same title by Richard Wright.
Weeks 4 & 5 (February 27 & March 6):
Jamaica Kincaid by Annie John.
Facilitator, David Sanders is Professor Emeritus of English at St. John Fisher College. He has taught British, American, and biblical literature in a career that spans more than forty years. Though widely published in professional journals and still active as a scholar, he has always enjoyed getting beyond the academic classroom to promote literary discussion with readers in the wider community.
The first week’s poems will be provided at the first discussion. All other works will be available at the Central Library at the first meeting for library card holders to borrow.
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