Writers in Conversation: The Ongoing Ancient Srikanth Reddy & Michael Bazzett, moderated by Dan Beachy-Quick Tuesday, December 3, 7pm on ZOOMhttps://bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-GsrjMpG91idEtMgUsjL-PgGce5FWqc (https://bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-GsrjMpG91idEtMgUsjL-PgGce5FWqc) Poets Srikanth Reddy and Michael Bazzett will join West Branch contributing editor Dan Beachy-Quick will discuss the persistence of the ancient in contemporary poetry. Moderator Dan Beachy-Quick is Professor of English at Colorado State University and the author of many publications in multiple genres, including six collections of poetry. Michael Bazzett is the author of four collections of poetry and the translator of the Mayan origin epic The Popol Vuh, which was acclaimed by The New York Times. Srikanth Reddy's latest book of poetry is Underworld Lit, a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry. Reddy is the poetry editor of Paris Review and a professor at the University of Chicago.

Keynote Speaker, Judy Richardson - Civil Rights Activist, SNCC Organizer, Filmmaker Date: Monday, January 27, 2025 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm Location: Trout Auditorium, Vaughan Literature Bio: Judy Richardson was on SNCC staff in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama (1963-66). Her experiences in SNCC continue to ground both her film and education work. She is currently codirecting the new visitor center film for the National Park Service's Frederick Douglass House in Washington, D.C. In 1968, she was a co-founder of Drum & Spear Bookstore, once the country's largest African American Bookstore. She was on the production team for all 14 hours of the seminal PBS series, Eyes on the Prize, as its series associate producer, then its education director, and then continued to produce documentaries for PBS, the History Channel, and museums. These include the NPS' "Little Rock 9" visitor center videos, The Orangeburg Massacre 1968 (PBS) and Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters (History Channel). She co-edited Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, a compilation of the testimonies of 53 SNCC women. She co-directed two NEH three-week teacher institutes, co-hosted by Duke University and focused on "Teaching Grassroots Movements in the South". She is a member of the SNCC Legacy Project board, was a Visiting Professor at Brown University, and has an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College. Questions can be directed to mlkweek@bucknell.edu.