Miscellanea: Poetry, prose, justice and the Arctic

Poetry:

PNC Television will air  "A Gathering of Laureates" Wednesday and Thursday, March 27 and 28, at 11:05 pm. The program features past and present laureates of Perry, Berks, York, Harrisburg, and Montgomery counties, including Melanie Simms of Sunbury — a familiar face in the Bloomsburg poetry community.

Prose:

Puerto Rican writer Marta Aponte Alsina will give a talk "We Had Never Seen Such People Before: Puerto Rican Literature and the Writing of Other" on Thursday, March 28, from 7 to 8 pm in Kehr Union, Multipurpose Room B. In connection to that lecture, there will be a series of talks related to diversity throughout that day.

• Paul Loomis, faculty, "Student Life in South America" (1:20-1:50 pm)
• Tom Aleto, faculty, "Carnival in San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca, Mexico: A Ritual of Inversion² (2:00-3:00 pm) 
• Kendal Arthur, international student, "St. Lucia: French and British Culture" (3:00-3:20 pm) 
• Marthe Beauvais, student, "Once Upon A Time, Haiti" (3:20-3:40 pm) 
• Iker Omar Belsaguy (exchange student, Mexico), "The Importance of Learning a Foreign Language. Experiences on Chinese language" (3:45-4:00 pm) 
• Study Abroad Panel (China, Germany, France, Haiti, Panama, Peru, Spain): 4:05-5:00 pm 

Justice: 

Terrence Roberts, one of the Little Rock Nine, will speak on Lessons from Little Rock, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 in Bloomsburg University’s Kehr Union, Ballroom. Roberts was a 15-year-old 11th-grader when he joined eight other African-American students in 1957 and entered all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Roberts’ presentation, open to the public free of charge.

The Arctic:

Arctic scientist Martin Jeffries will speak on "The Arctic Report Card: On the State of an Environmental System in Rapid Transition" on Wednesday, April 3, at 7:30 pm in BU’s Hartline Science Center, Kuster Auditorium. Jeffries, currently on leave from a faculty position with the University of Alaska/Fairbanks, is program officer and arctic science adviser for the Ocean, Atmosphere and Space Research Division at the Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Va. His talk is sponsored by the Green Campus Initiative and open to the public free of charge.