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Tuesday, July 27, 2010, Doors Open at 6pm
Carolina Theatre
309 West Morgan Street
Durham, North Carolina 27701-2119
Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. After her mother died in childbirth a year later, Sanchez lived with her paternal grandmother and other relatives for several years. Sanchez has lectured at more than five hundred universities and colleges in the United States and had traveled extensively, reading her poetry in Africa, Cuba, England, the Caribbean, Australia, Nicaragua, the People's Republic of China, Norway, and Canada. She was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University, where she began teaching in 1977, and held the Laura Carnell Chair in English there until her retirement in 1999. She lives in Philadelphia.
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Public Allies North Carolina will be featuring Bull City Slam team and local youth presentation of the history of the spoken word movement.
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