For immediate release April 17, 2007

Contact: Hope H. Davis 443-840-5053

CCBC Creative Writing Forum welcomes
internationally renowned poet Sekou Sundiata
Spoken-word poet performs on the Catonsville campus April 27

Baltimore, Md. – The Community College of Baltimore County welcomes internationally renowned poet Sekou Sundiata to its Catonsville campus on April 27 to participate in the college’s Creative Writing Forum. Sundiata performs at 9:45 a.m. in the Q Theatre, 800 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, Md.

A professor at Eugene Lang College (NY), Sundiata is a poet who writes for print, performance, music and theater. Born in Harlem, Sundiata came of age as an artist during the Black Arts/Black Aesthetic movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Fellow, a Columbia University Revson Fellow, a Master Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida) and the first Writer-in-Residence at the New School University in New York. He has performed on Russell Simmon’s Def Poetry Jam and was part of Bill Moyer’s PBS series on poetry, “The Language of Life.” He also has a Grammy-nominated recording of music and poems called “The Blue Oneness of Dreams.”

Sundiata has written and performed in the highly acclaimed performance theater works including The Circle Unbroken is a Hard Bop, which toured nationally and received three AUDELCO Awards and a BESSIE Award. He recently performed his new work at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in New York which he describes as encrypted with the pain of the World Trade Center, Japanese Internment and the policing of people of Arab descent. His spoken word poetry is accompanied by a five-piece band and four vocalists who sing the stories of cultural diversity.

Sundiata’s scheduled performance is the perfect compliment to CCBC’s Creative Writing Forum which seeks to recognize publicly the talent and achievements of writing students in county high schools and community colleges. Instructors will also be recognized for their dedication an excellence.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 443-840-5625.