D'Angelo Chair Lecture "Practicing Incendiary Art"

Patricia Smith, M.F.A., the 2020 Peter P. and Margaret A. D’Angelo Chair in the Humanities, will deliver a lecture, “Practicing Incendiary Art,” on Monday, November 14, at 2 p.m. in the D’Angelo Center, room 415 A/B.

Ms. Smith, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She has authored eight books of poetry, most recently Incendiary Art (2017), winner of a 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry, the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Award in poetry, and the Abel Meeropol Award for Social Justice. She was also named as a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

In Spring 2020, Ms. Smith joined the Department of English faculty of St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as the D’Angelo Chair and taught an undergraduate poetry workshop that focused on the spoken word, hybrid forms, formal poetry, prose as poetry, and the emergence of modern poetry as performance and competition.

All are invited to attend the lecture.

For additional information, please contact Patricia A. Marchia, Executive Secretary, St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at 718-990-6272; [email protected].

Established in 2007, the Peter P. and Margaret A. D’Angelo Chair in the Humanities promotes excellence in teaching and scholarly exchange.