<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000099'><span></span><br><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span><strong>February 4</strong><br>“Black Nature: African Americans Writing Nature Poetry”<br>Askia M. Toure, <em>poet and author</em><br></span>Meigs Room, 12:00 PM <br><br>Askia M. Toure', internationally published poet and author of five books, including <i>From the Pyramids to the Projects</i>; winner of the 1989 American Book Award for Literature.<br><br><strong style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT WEEK:</strong><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">February 11</span><br>“Imagining a Caribbean Future: Caribbean Literature and Science Fiction”<b><br></b>
Alisa Braithwaite, <em>Assistant Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</em><br>Meigs Room, 12:00 PM<br>
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--<br><span>For more information on Black History events, please visit:</span><span id="c901b474-817c-4a42-b66a-fab847aeb11d"><br>http://www.mbl.edu/news/press_releases/2010_pr_01_28.html<br><br>Black History Month Committee website:<br>http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/outreach/WHBHMC/index.htm<br></span></div></div><span><br></span></div></div></body></html>