CALLALOO 30th Anniversary Celebration

Wednesday, October 24 through Saturday, October 27, 2007
Hosted by
The Center for Africana Studies
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)

With poetry and fiction readings, lectures, conversations, and panel
discussions at Johns Hopkins University, this celebration of
Callaloo´s thirty years of continuous publication will bring together
a group of the USA´s best creative writers, intellectuals, academics,
and artists to launch the journal into the next thirty years.
Some of the more than 100 creative writers and scholars who will be
reading and engaging in public discussions on writing creative texts
and writing on these and other texts and the culture from which they
derive include:
Carole Boyce Davies, Lucille Clifton, Thadious Davis, Brent Edwards,
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Thomas Glave, Farah Griffin, Trudier Harris,
Yusef Komunyakaa, Wyhneema Lubiano, John McCluskey, Mark Anthony
Neal, Carl Phillips, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Trethewey, and many
others.
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A complete schedule of events for this national celebration will be
released in August, 2007, along with information regarding
registration, attendance, hotel reservations, etc. To be added to our
conference mailing list, please e-mail <callaloo@tamu.edu>.