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February 23, 2000
Lenard Moore Featured in Visiting Writers Series, March 21 at NC Wesleyan Rocky Mount, NC—Poet and writer Lenard Moore will read from his works for the Visiting Writers Series at North Carolina Wesleyan College, March 21. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m., in the Powers Recital Hall in the Dunn Center for the Performing Arts, and is free and open to the public. A visiting lecturer of English at North Carolina State University, Moore has written three books, "Forever Home," a collection of poems that was nominated for the American Book Award; "Desert Storm: A Brief History;" and "The Open Eye." Recent articles by Moore have appeared in "The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education," and "Black Issues in Higher Education." His research focuses on the impact of haiku and its related forms on African American poets. He wants to identify the ways many cultural events may help to integrate and innovate haiku. His poetry has appeared in over 30 anthologies. He has received two CAVE CANEM scholarships, a City of Raleigh Arts Commission grant, a Margaret Walker Creative Writing Award, an Indies Arts Award, a Tar Heel of the Week Award, and nominations for a Pushcart Prize and a General Electric Foundation for Younger Writers Award. In 1998 he was selected as a CAVE CANEM fellow for three years. Moore has taught at NC State for three years. His courses have included Composition and Rhetoric; Composition and Reading; Studies in Modern Poetry, and Poetry Writing. "I write every day because writing allows me the freedom to define the world in which I live and hopefully to transform that world into immortality," said Moore. "Writing brings me joy and teaches me lessons about myself: a spiritual awakening." From Jacksonville, N.C., Moore studied at Shaw University and NC A&T State University. He is the founder and executive director of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective and co-founder of the Washington Street Writers Group. The Visiting Writers Series is supported, in part, by the North Carolina Arts Council. # # # |
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