Poet Sharan Strange reads and leads a workshop at UNCA, March 24

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Poet Sharan Strange will present a reading of her work at noon on Thursday, March 24, followed by a talk and workshop We Are Each Other’s Magnitude and Bond: Poetry’s Emphatic Urge from 3:30 – 5 p.m. These events are free and open to the public and will take place in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.

Strange’s poems and essays have been published in journals and anthologies around the world, including Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry; Dance the Guns to Silence (UK); and Agenda (South Africa). Her first collection of poems, Ash (Beacon Press, 2001), was selected by renowned poet Sonia Sanchez for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. She has work forthcoming this with the #SingHerName series from The Dream Unfinished, a collective of classical musicians showing solidarity with activists in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. A new chapbook of her poems, The Quotient of Injustice, will also be published this year by Central Square Press.

Strange’s honors include the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, an Individual Artist Award from the D. C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. She is an instructor of English at Spelman College and has served as Bruce McEver Visiting Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

For more information, contact the Center for Jewish Studies at 828.232.5027.