BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14770-f5954d688531fab0c6d61525afbe0e76@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260609T052934Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T130000 SUMMARY:\"Grown Deep Like the Rivers\": The Black Lives Matter Movement(s) from Langston Hughes to the Present DESCRIPTION:\n2021 marks the centennial anniversary of Langston Hughes p ublishing one of his best known poems\, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” Th e poem was a signature poem of the Harlem Renaissance and written by a t eenage Hughes as he was crossing the Mississippi River on his way to see his father in Mexico. It was Hughes’ first poem to be published in The Crisis\, the NAACP’s official magazine edited by W. E. B. Du Bois. Like the magazine it was published in\, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” has been a touchstone for generations owing to its themes of race pride\, histor ic and diasporic consciousness\, and eloquent dignity in the face of cen turies-old patterns of slavery and racial violence. Panelists will remar k upon the importance of Hughes and his poem and suggest how we might co nnect both to artistic and literary productions shaping\, and shaped by\ , the Black Lives Matter movement(s) in our own time\, all the while poi nting out how one or the other movement may (or may not) be unprecedente d after all.\n\nPanelists include:\n\nTony Bolden\, Professor of African and African-American Studies\, University of Kansas. Bolden’s published works include Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture (University of Illinois Press\, 2004) and Groove Theory: The Blu es Foundation of Funk (University Press of Mississippi\, 2020). Bolden s erves as Editor of The Langston Hughes Review.\nAutumn Womack\, Assistan t Professor of English and African American Studies\, Princeton Universi ty. Womack is the author of The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Ex periment of Racial Data\, 1880-1930 (forthcoming from The University of Chicago Press\, 2022). Her research and teaching interests are located a t the intersection of African American literature\, visual studies\, and print culture.\nAldon Lynn Nielsen\, The George and Barbara Kelly Profe ssor of American Literature\, Penn State. Nielsen is the author most rec ently of Back Pages: Selected Poems of A.L. Nielsen (BlazeVox Books\, 20 21) and The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka (Palgrave MacMillan\, 2021). Ni elsen has won numerous awards for his poetry\, edited volumes\, and crit ical scholarship including a Larry Neal Award for Poetry\, the Josephine Miles Award\, two Gertrude Stein Prizes\, the SAMLA Studies Prize\, a D arwin Turner Award\, and an American Book Award.\n\nModerator:\n\nLaura Vrana\, Assistant Professor of English\, University of South Alabama. Vr ana’s teaching and research focus on African American literature. Her re cent scholarship includes several articles focused on Black women poets including Thylias Moss\, Robin Coste Lewis\, Gwendolyn Brooks\, and Evie Shockley published in various journals including MELUS\, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature\, the Journal of Ethnic American Literature\, and Obsidian.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/grown-dee p-like-the-rivers-the-black-lives-matter-movement-s-from-langston-hughes -to-the-present-2/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

2021 marks the centennial anniversary of Langston Hughes publishing one of his best kno wn poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” The poem was a signature poem of the Harlem Renaissance and written by a teenage Hughes as he was crossi ng the Mississippi River on his way to see his father in Mexico. It was Hughes’ first poem to be published in The Crisis, the NAACP’s o fficial magazine edited by W. E. B. Du Bois. Like the magazine it was pu blished in, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” has been a touchstone for gener ations owing to its themes of race pride, historic and diasporic conscio usness, and eloquent dignity in the face of centuries-old patterns of sl avery and racial violence. Panelists will remark upon the importance of Hughes and his poem and suggest how we might connect both to artistic an d literary productions shaping, and shaped by, the Black Lives Matter mo vement(s) in our own time, all the while pointing out how one or the oth er movement may (or may not) be unprecedented after all.

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