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The Poetics of Girlhood and Womanhood in America

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April 6, 2022: 7:00 pm

Poets and writers Diana Whitney and Shanta Lee Gander join Christal Brown, associate professor of Dance at Middlebury College, in a conversation that explores how girlhood and womanhood in America are manifested across the boundaries of poetry, dance, and lived experience.

About the Presenters

Diana Whitney’s edited work, You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, ranges across intersectional, intergenerational, and gender-fluid voices.

In GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, Shanta Lee Gander navigates between formal and vernacular styles to examine butterflies and female sexuality, vulnerability, classical Greek myths, and more.

Christal Brown’s original dance piece “The Opulence of Integrity” was inspired by the public life and inner searching of Muhammad Ali, boxing’s outspoken superstar.

Partner

Middlebury College and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Underwriter

Anne Commire Fund for Women in the Humanities

Statewide Underwriters

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Image: Leighann Blackwood via Unsplash

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Details

Date:
April 6, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm
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Organizer

Starr LaTronica
Phone
(802) 254-5290

Venue

Brooks Memorial Library
224 Main St
Brattleboro, VT 05301 United States
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