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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an artist talk by Caroline Randall Williams\, an award-winning poet\, young adult novelist\, and cookbook author as well as an activist\, public intellectual\, performance artist\, and scholar. Williams will be speaking about her 2019 collection of poetry Lucy Negro\, Redux: The Bard\, a Book\, and a Ballet\, which was the basis for the 2019 ballet Black Lucy and the Bard. Book signing will follow.\n\nBorn and raised in Nashville Tennessee\, Harvard graduate Caroline Randall Williams is an award-winning poet\, young adult novelist\, and cookbook author as well as an activist\, public intellectual\, performance artist\, and scholar.  After graduating from Harvard University\, where her undergraduate thesis received Magna Cum Laude honors\, Caroline moved to Mississippi where she taught public school on a dirt road in Sunflower County for two years. In Mississippi\, Caroline lived in an America many Americans are hardly aware of any longer\, an America as rich in culture as it is wretched in poverty\, towns still split into white and black by train tracks and bridges. During her second year\, she taught 9th grade English to 86 kids who didn’t have a book to take home. She got that job by tutoring eight kids who the state of Mississippi said couldn’t pass the English exit exam—eight for eight\, her kids passed. She joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in the Fall of 2019 as a Writer-in-Residence in Medicine\, Health\, and Society while continuing to work and speak to the places where art\, business\, and scholarship intersect\, moving people closer to their best lives and corporations closer to their ideal identities. Caroline is a catalyst. She makes change possible by bringing art and joy into the room in such a way that the grit of real challenge and limits may become eclipsed by analysis\, innovation\, and skill.\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/6677
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LOCATION:Max Kade Theatre
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk by Caroline Randall Williams
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