Article: AWARD-WINNING POET TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE

The University of Kansas issued the following news release:

Keith Gilyard, an award-winning poet, biographer and distinguished scholar in English studies at Penn State University, will deliver the 2008-09 John F. Eberhardt Lecture at the University of Kansas.

Gilyard will speak on "Literacies of a Lifetime: Literature, Ethnicity, Code" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct 6, in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The public lecture is free and is sponsored by KU's Department of English.

Gilyard's interests are wide-ranging and include African-American literacy and literature, African-American rhetoric, critical race studies, sociolinguistics and writing pedagogy.

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