For its 30th annual Maurice Brown Memorial Poetry Reading, Oakland University will welcome Jamaica’s Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison to campus. The event will be held from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 24 in the Oakland Room of the Oakland Center. Goodison is the author of numerous poetry collections, including “Tamarind Season,” “I am Becoming My Mother,” – which received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize – “Controlling the Silver,” and most recently, “Collected Poems,” which was published … [Read more...]
Oakland University Welcomes Jamaica’s Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison
October 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment