Troy University Montgomery College of Arts and Sciences Presents: A Talk With Pearl Cleage

August 27, 2010

Pearl Cleage is an Atlanta-based writer whose plays include include “Flyin’ West,” “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” and “Bourbon at the Border,” commissioned and directed by Kenny Leon at The Alliance Theatre. She is also the author of “A Song for Coretta,” written in 2007 during Cleage’s time as Cosby Professor in Women’s Studies at Spelman College. Her new play, “The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at A Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years,” was commissioned by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and will premiere in the Fall of 2010, in a joint production by The ASF and Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, directed by Susan Booth. 

Cleage is also an accomplished novelist. Her novels include What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day, a New York Times bestseller and an Oprah Book Club selection, I Wish I Had A Red Dress, Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do, Babylon Sisters , Baby Brother’s Blues, and Seen It All and Done the Rest, and Till You Hear From Me . She is also the author of Mad at Miles: A Blackwoman’s Guide to Truth, a groundbreaking work of race and gender, and We Speak Your Names, a praise poem commissioned by Oprah Winfrey for her 2005 celebration of legendary African American women and written in collaboration with Zaron Burnett. Cleage has also written for magazines, including “Essence”, “Vibe”, “Rap Pages” and “Ms.” In addition to her work as the founding editor of Catalyst Magazine, a literary journal, she was a regular columnist for The Atlanta Tribune for ten years, winning many awards for her thought provoking columns. Her work has earned her many awards and honors, including an NAACP Image Award for fiction in 2008.

Wednesday, September 8th 2010

8:00 pm 

Troy University

Rosa Parks Library and Museum Auditorium

252 Montgomery Street 

For more information please contact Dr. Sara Kosiba at (334) 241-9792.  The event is free and open to the public.