Fall 2020 Schedule
Thursday, September 3
4:00 p.m. – 5:40 p.m. by Zoom
Yona Harvey: Write Yourself Into a Comic: No-Stress Comics Journaling for Beginners
In this stimulating, no-stress lecture, you will learn how to panel, draw, and narrate a comic. Through a series of brief writing exercises you’ll highlight memorable moments from your life and turn them into story. Fictional and poetic embellishments are encouraged. We’ll view some classic comic book layouts for inspiration. Each participant will leave with a mini comic and ideas for making many more. No drawing experience necessary! (Have a notebook/journal and some blank paper ready for your ideas!)
Yona Harvey contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda and co-authored with Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Panther and the Crew. She has worked with teenagers writing about mental health issues in collaboration with Creative Nonfiction magazine and received the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from St. Mary’s College of Maryland for her poetry; she is the author of the poetry collections You Don’t Have To Go To Mars for Love (Four Way Books) and Hemming the Water (Four Way Books), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her website is yonaharvey.com.
https://smcm.zoom.us/j/94258582388
Meeting ID: 942 5858 2388
Passcode: 170038
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Meeting ID: 942 5858 2388
Passcode: 170038
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Thursday, September 24
8:15 p.m. by Zoom
Poet Yona Harvey
Yona Harvey will read from her new poetry collection, You Don’t Have To Go To Mars for Love.
Yona Harvey is the author of the poetry collections You Don’t Have To Go To Mars for Love (Four Way Books) and Hemming the Water (Four Way Books), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda and co-authored with Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Panther and the Crew. She has worked with teenagers writing about mental health issues in collaboration with Creative Nonfiction magazine and received the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her website is yonaharvey.com.
https://smcm.zoom.us/j/92144275805
Meeting ID: 921 4427 5805
Passcode: 800595
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Meeting ID: 921 4427 5805
Passcode: 800595
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Thursday, October 22
8:15 p.m. by Zoom
Fiction Writer Tope Folarin
Tope Folarin will read from his new novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man.
Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.
https://smcm.zoom.us/j/94927902726
Meeting ID: 949 2790 2726
Passcode: 002102
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Meeting ID: 949 2790 2726
Passcode: 002102
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Thursday, November 12
8:15 p.m. by Zoom
Really Recent Alumni Reading
Alumni readers from ’18, ’19, and ’20 will read poetry, fiction, and nonfiction!
https://smcm.zoom.us/j/95606934264
Meeting ID: 956 0693 4264
Passcode: 066023
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Meeting ID: 956 0693 4264
Passcode: 066023
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About
The VOICES Reading Series, established by poets Lucille Clifton and Michael Glaser over 30 years ago, features poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers and is intended to bring accomplished writers to the campus to interact with students and faculty. Invited writers read their works throughout the semester on Thursday evenings at 8:15 P.M at Daugherty-Palmer Commons, and all readings are free and open to the public. Once or twice a month, authors give a short reading and then respond during a brief question and answer period. Each reading is followed by a reception, where students and faculty can mingle with the author and other interested writers and readers. The author’s book(s) are also sold during the reception and can be signed by the author. Luminaries such as Mark Doty, Elizabeth Alexander, Toni Morrison, and Naomi Shihab Nye have read in the series.
Information on events are posted throughout campus, and emails are sent out near the date of the readings; please contact the director, Karen Leona Anderson (klanderson@smcm.edu) if you would like to be added to these notifications. In addition, all the events and information on the authors can be found at our Facebook page: Creative Writing Resources at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
