Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a poet, writer and literary scholar. Her first book, Tongue Tied Woman, won the Edda Poetry Chapbook Competition for Women in 2002. Her second collection, Work Is Love Made Visible, won the 2010 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry, the 2010 Western Heritage Award for Poetry from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the 2010 WILLA Award for Poetry from Women Writing the West. Dr. Mish is currently a member of the faculty of the Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program at Oklahoma City University and editor of Mongrel Empire Press.
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Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Poet, Writer, and Literary Scholar
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center
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Sandra Steingraber Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to cancer and human health. The Sierra Club has heralded Steingraber as “the new Rachel Carson,” and, indeed, she is a recipient of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award, as well as the Heinz Award; the Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund; and the Environmental Health Champion Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles.
The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.
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Sandra Steingraber, Author, ecologist and cancer survivor
Wednesday April 18, 7:30 pm
Hunt Union Ballroom
SUNY COLLEGE AT ONEONTA
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Nate Hendley is a Toronto-based freelance writer, journalist and author. He has a written a series of books, primarily true-crime tomes and biographies. His recent titles include Crystal Death (about methamphetamine), biographies of Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, and John Lennon, and American Gangsters Then and Now: An Encyclopedia (published 2010 by ABC-CLIO). Hendley’s non-crime related books include Motivate to Create: A Guide for Writers. This book outlines practical steps on starting up or stepping up a non-fiction freelance writing business. Hendley’s talk will focus on “True Stories: Non-Fiction Writing as an Art Form.”
The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.
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Nate Hendley, Author
Thursday, March 8 at 7:30pm
Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center
SUNY COLLEGE AT ONEONTA
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Arthur Flowers is a novelist, memoirist and children’s book author. A Vietnam veteran, blues singer, co-founder of the New Renaissance Writer’s Guild, and a Memphis native, Flowers considers himself a contemporary griot, referring to the storytellers of ancient African societies who passed on the history of their people to future generations through the oral tradition. His works include novels (De Mojo Blues and Another Good Loving Blues), a memoir (Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman) and a graphic novel (I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.), illustrated by Manu Chitrakar. Winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Foundation for the Arts, Arthur Flowers is currently an Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University.
The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing
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Arthur Flowers, Author
Tuesday, February 7, 2011 at 7:30 pm
The Center for Multicultural Experinces, Lee Hall
SUNY COLLEGE AT ONEONTA
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Fall 2011 Red Dragon Reading Series |
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Anne Waldman, Presented at the Red Dragon Reading Series, in the Fall of 2011. She is the author of more than 40 books, poet Anne Waldman writes in the lineage of Whitman and Ginsberg as an "open field investigator of consciousness." Together with Ginsberg, she co-founded the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.
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Jim and Carol McCord presented at the Red Dragon Reading Series, in the Fall of 2011, "The Singing Eye," a collaborative performance of poetry and poetry and photography that promotes conservation of our natural, historical, and cultural environments.
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Ann Neelon, winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry and the Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Writers and Readers Award gave a reading of her poetry at the Red Dragon Reading Series in the Fall of 2011.
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