Join the Champlain College community in honoring and celebrating the legacy and contributions of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 21. This year's celebration consists of numerous events, which are free and open to the public (https://www.champlain.edu/mlk19):

MLK Day 2019: Let Us Teach!
9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Champlain Room and Alumni Auditorium, Center for Communication & Creative Media, 3rd Floor, 375 Maple Street
Champlain College presents "Let Us Teach," a full program of learning organized by students, faculty and staff, including presentations and films.
https://www.champlain.edu/about-champlain/diversity-and-inclusion/signature-events/mlk-2019-[...]ach

MLK Keynote Address & Discussion: Marcus Wicker
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Champlain Room, Center for Communication & Creative Media, 3rd Floor, 375 Maple Street
Award-winning poet Marcus Wicker presents a hybrid of poetry reading and discussion of the influence of Langston Hughes' work—specifically "A Dream Deferred"—on Dr. King's writing and oratory. Wicker will also highlight the ways in which the act of writing poetry can be used as a powerful tool for nonviolent protest and a timeless vessel for hope. Wicker has a unique perspective, style, and voice that stems from his background as a black man who was born into academia, raised in the Midwest, and surrounded by an array of close white friends. Wicker's bold, accessible, and pop culture-driven poetry pulses with an infectious, underlying hip-hop beat.

Marcus Wicker is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, The Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, and the Fine Arts Work Center. His first collection Maybe the Saddest Thing (Harper Perennial), a National Poetry Series winner, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Wicker's poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, and Boston Review. His second book, Silencer—also an Image Award finalist—was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017 and won the Society of Midland Authors Award, as well as the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for New Voices. Marcus teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, and he is the poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review.
https://www.champlain.edu/mlk19

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