Sunday, July 27, 2008

African-American literary journal Callaloo to present four readings Aug. 6

Four faculty members from the 2008 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops will read from their poetry and fiction at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6.

The event is free and open to the public and takes place in Washington University's Hurst Lounge, Room 201, Duncker Hall. A reception for the authors will immediately follow. Duncker Hall is located in Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Brookings and Hoyt drives.

For more information, contact Dorothy Negri at ( 314 ) 935-5190 or email dlnegri@artsci.wustl.edu.

Launched in 1976 by editor Charles H. Rowell, Callaloo is the premier African-American and African literary journal, publishing a rich mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, interviews and visual art from the African diaspora. The annual Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops — hosted this year by Washington University, from Aug. 3 to 16 — are designed to assist new and developing writers by providing intensive and individual instruction in the writing of fiction and poetry.

The Aug. 6 event will feature readings by poets Tracy K. Smith and A. Van Jordan, and by fiction writers Mat Johnson and Nelly Rosario.

In addition to the faculty readings, the Callaloo Creative Writings Workshop will conclude with two nights of student readings, at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 14 and 15, also in Hurst Lounge.

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