October 24-27, 2007

With poetry and fiction readings, lectures, conversations, and panel discussions at Johns Hopkins University, this celebration of Callaloo’s thirty years of continuous publication will bring together a group of the USA’s best creative writers, intellectuals, academics, and artists to launch the journal into the next thirty years. Some of the more than 100 creative writers and scholars who will be reading and engaging in public discussions on writing creative texts and writing on these and other texts and the culture from which they derive include: Carole Boyce Davies, Lucille Clifton, Thadious Davis, Eddie Glaude, Brent Edwards, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Thomas Glave, Farah Griffin, Trudier Harris, Yusef Komunyakaa, Wyhneema Lubiano, Paule Marshall, John McCluskey, Mark Anthony Neal, Carl Phillips, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Trethewey, John Edgar Wideman, and many others.

Please find below links below to the Callaloo conference information.

http://web.jhu.edu/africana
http://callaloo.tamu.edu/conference.html
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=143619