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Poet, essayist, playwright, and professor Patricia Smith will speak at the University at Albany and the Cultural Education Center in Albany March 23rd: Presentation/Q&A — 6:00 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus
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A chronicle of the author's efforts to study the moutain gorillas of Rwanda, their efforts to found the Mountain GorillaProject, and eventual expansion into general conservation education.
This tale, set during the Depression, tells about Francis Phelan and other inhabitants of skid row in Albany, New York. Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels.
Cancer; patients; families; diagnosis; poetry
African-American journalists; West Virginia; John Henry; Racism
Stuart Bartow
