Michael S. Harper, 8th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-9-1985
Location
Webb University Center; Batten Arts and Letters Building
Author/Artist Bio
Writing in the New York Times Book Review, poet and critic David Ignatow has said that Michael Harper is a poet who is passionately identified with the history of his people.... It is Harper's achievement to have projected his most difficult and complex insights and feelings through the epical manner, yet at the same time carried us along to identify with him." Michael S. Harper won the Poetry Society of America's Melville Crane award for his book Images of Kin. His other books--among them Nightmare Begins Responsibility, History is Your Own Heartbeat, Debridement, and Dear John, Dear Coltrane--have earned him two National Book Award nominations, as well as awards given by the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Black Academy of Arts and Letters. A highly regarded performer of his work, Harper will give a lecture titled "Chants of Saints" on Wednesday and will close the Festival with a poetry reading on Thursday evening.
Description
Harper read on Wednesday, October 9th, 1985 at 11:00 a.m. in Webb University Center and and on Thursday, October 10th, 1985 at 8:00 p.m. in the Batten Arts and Letters Building.
Recommended Citation
Harper, Michael S., "Michael S. Harper, 8th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (1985). 8th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 7-10, 1985. 6.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-1985/6
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