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(Linda Du reads a book excerpt in her native language of Chinese at the most recent Poets & Writers of CMU Reading Series, on Thursday, Feb. 20.)
Thursday night’s poetry reading at Planet Earth and the 4 Directions Gallery downtown featured the work of four CMU faculty and staff members — Linda Du, Jennifer Hancock, Labecca Jones and Laura Mourning — who read to a packed audience.
The Feb. 20 event was the first in the 2014 Poets & Writers of CMU Reading Series.
Poems ranged in delivery and content from a reading in Chinese to one about a homeless man with a sandwich.
Hancock, an English professor, started the night by reading five poems, including one about hurricanes as an ode to her childhood hometown.
Following Hancock, Mourning, also an English professor, read a chapter from a work-in-progress about her old house, which she described as having windows that “bowed like a weathered book.”
CMU Database Administrator Linda Du then took the stage to read from her work about an arranged marriage in India, “Sacred Marriage,” which she delivered to the audience in Chinese, her native language.
Lastly, Jones, an English professor as well, read several poems from the point of view of her childhood best friend who suffers from PTSD.
(CMU professor Labecca Jones shares her poetry at Planet Earth and the 4 Directions Gallery at 524 Colorado Ave.)
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