{"id":44730,"date":"2020-02-05T06:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=44730"},"modified":"2020-02-07T07:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T12:44:30","slug":"jmu-profesor-lauren-k-alleyne-to-present-february-writers-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/jmu-profesor-lauren-k-alleyne-to-present-february-writers-read\/","title":{"rendered":"JMU professor Lauren K. Alleyne to present February Writers Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Poet and author Lauren K. Alleyne will speak at the next Writers Read event on Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. in Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s Common Grounds coffee shop. The reading, sponsored by the Language and Literature department, is free to the public. Donations will be accepted at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alleyne\u2019s most recent book, <em>Honeyfish<\/em> (New Issues, 2019), won the 2018 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/laurenkalleyne.com\/\">Alleyne\u2019s website<\/a>, <em>Honeyfish <\/em>\u201cis about being a Black immigrant woman in the world and constantly navigating those identities internally and externally in a variety of landscapes and timescapes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alleyne teaches English at James Madison University (JMU) and is the assistant director of&nbsp; the university\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmu.edu\/furiousflower\/\">Furious Flower Poetry Center<\/a>, the nation\u2019s first academic center for Black poetry. Alleyne also serves as editor-in-chief of Furious Flower\u2019s online quarterly, <em>The Fight &amp; The Fiddle.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cIn exquisitely crafted poems of heart-accelerating candor and clarity, Lauren K. Alleyne says to all the black bodies slain by hatred and militarized fear, \u2018Nothing I say will save you, but how can I say nothing?\u2019\u201d writes Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2017-19. \u201c<em>Honeyfish<\/em> is an elegy for all the countless lost, and a praise song for the many black lives that persist in their wish to give and receive love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alleyne has also published the poetry collection <em>Difficult Fruit <\/em>(Peepal Tree Press, 2014), and her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction work has been featured in <em>The Atlantic, Women\u2019s Studies Quarterly, <\/em>and <em>Crab Orchard Review,<\/em> among many other publications. She hails from Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy poems are lyric and narrative movements towards clarity of vision,\u201d Alleyne writes. \u201cIn my work, I look. I look at myself, at nature, at the cultures I live in, at the stories I\u2019m told, at the things I believe, etc., etc.\u201d<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and author Lauren K. 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