Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Linda Arnold Carlisle Grant Recipient Noelle Morrisette will present on her research about Harlem Renaissance poet and Southerner Anne Spencer (1882-1975) on April 9 at 4:00 pm in the Pecky Cypress Room at the Alumni House. Anne Spencer is frequently referred to as a major poet of the Harlem Renaissance—the artistic flowering of nationally conscious black arts in the early twentieth-century, roughly 1919-1940—but she never lived in Harlem. She didn’t live in any major metropolitan or northern city. Spencer lived in the South her entire life, the latter seventy-four years of it in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she wrote the poems that brought her to the readership of The Crisis, Opportunity Magazine, and other major African American and American literary journals that proclaimed the newness of black participation in the changing social, political, and artistic landscape of America.

When: Apr 09, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Pecky Cypress Room, Alumni House