[Sigtaudelt] Fw: Call for Black History Month Creative Showcase Performers + invite for Feb 1 Cameron Awkward-Rich craft talk/poetry reading

[Dowdey, Diane]

I hope some members of Sigma Tau Delta will be able and willing to participate in this. Even if you don't perform, support your fellow students and attend the reading and reception.

Dr. Dowdey


Dr. Diane Dowdey
Faculty Adviser, Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society
Associate professor of English
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341
936-294-4217
dowdey at shsu.com<mailto:dowdey at shsu.com>

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Subject: FW: Call for Black History Month Creative Showcase Performers + invite for Feb 1 Cameron Awkward-Rich craft talk/poetry reading


Call for Black History Month Creative Showcase Performers

Looking for students for the Black History Month creative showcase will be 5-6p in Austin Hall, with 3-5 minutes allotted per performer (this may change depending on how many people sign up -- let me know if you would like more time if we have it). This is an event leading up to Cam Awkward-Rich's reading at 6p. Students are encouraged to stay for Cam's reading and a reception (with free food!) following at The Vortexan.

To sign up, please e-mail Dr. Chen at ching-in at shsu.edu<mailto:ching-in at shsu.edu>, 1) the name you would like to be introduced by and phonetic pronunciation of name; 2) contact info including e-mail and phone # day of; 3) a brief description of what is being planned (i.e. spoken word, dance, musical etc); 4) specific tech needs for performance; 5) any schedule limitations on Feb. 1 (i.e. has class at 5:30p so would need to be scheduled in the 1st half of the hour).

Invite to February 1 craft talk + poetry reading +Black History Month creative showcase

Join College of Humanities and Social Sciences Diversity and Inclusion Committee, SHSU MFA Program in Creative Writing, SHSU LGBTQI* Faculty and Staff Network & Gamma Sigma Kappa as we kick off Black History Month programming with a creative showcase by students and a craft talk and poetry reading by visiting scholar and poet Cameron Awkward-Rich.

12:00 p.m. CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH CRAFT TALK: 'WRITING TRANS LIT?', EVANS 212

5:00 p.m. BLACK HISTORY MONTH CREATIVE SHOWCASE, AUSTIN HALL

6:00 p.m. CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH POETRY READING & BOOK SIGNING, AUSTIN HALL

RECEPTION WITH REFRESHMENTS TO FOLLOW AT THE VORTEXAN (1215 19th St, Huntsville, TX 77340)

"Please—

what’s the word for being born of sorrow
that isn’t yours? For having a family?

For belonging nowhere? Not even
your body. Especially not there." - Cameron Awkward-Rich

Cameron Awkward-Rich (http://www.cawkwardrich.com/) is the author of 'Sympathetic Little Monster' (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and the chapbook 'Transit' (Button Poetry, 2015). A Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor for 'Muzzle Magazine,' Cam is currently a doctoral candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University.

Through a combination of lyric, narrative, & fractured essay, Sympathetic Little Monster' attempts to make a space & a shape for the little girl who haunts our cultural/personal narratives about blackness & transmasculinity. As a trans coming-of-age text, the work is intensely inward-focused, but it resists the imperative of linear autobiography. Instead, it uses the personal as a tool to explore what kind of thing a “self” is, its relation to trauma & objectification, & its capacity to be multiple.

About 'Sympathetic Little Monster,' Danez Smith has said,
"Cameron Awkward-Rich’s debut is a stunning announcement of a voice that demands we move closer as much as it wishes we’d go away. The ornate emotional terrain of these poems is charted with the poet’s sometimes spare, sometimes wild, always skilled lyric. We are invited into a story Awkward-Rich suggests we 'know the words' to, but damn if it doesn’t sound better when this poet tells us. As much about stillness as it is about transition, Sympathetic Little Monster is at once analytical, magical, confessional, dismissive, but ultimately, and simply, a collection breaking new ground in Trans, Queer, Black, and American Letters. For many, Awkward-Rich’s poems will burst open the mind, the heart, and even some doors, but when you get in there, just leave him alone."

If you are a SHSU student interested in participating in the creative showcase celebrating Black History Month, please contact Dr. Ching-In Chen (ching-in at shsu.edu<mailto:ching-in at shsu.edu>).

Link to Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/699113593600210/?
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Dr. Ching-In Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Sam Houston State University
Evans Complex 116
936-294-1944
ching-in at shsu.edu<mailto:ching-in at shsu.edu>

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