Langston Hughes Reading Circles Set for Nov. 2 and 3 Events Celebrate the Author's 100th Birthday November 1, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Patricia Lomando White [412/624-9101; laer@pitt.edu]
PITTSBURGH— Ogle Duff, an associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh's School of Education, and the National Council of Teachers of English are hosting two poetry circles to celebrate author Langston Hughes' 100th birthday.
A Children's Hour will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Belmar Elementary School, 7109 Hermitage St. The second reading, Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Community of Reconciliation, 100 N. Bellefield St., will feature reading and discussion of Hughes' autobiography, "The Big Sea," published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1940, and selected poetry.
The impetus for the poetry circles comes from the "Speaking of Rivers: Taking Poetry to the People" project, funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the University of Kansas-Lawrence.
The goals of the Langston Hughes Poetry Circles are to bring poetry into the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds and to introduce readers to Hughes' work.
For more information, call 412/648-7194.
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