Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Professional
Activities 2016
January 21---Interviewed by Attorney Cleophus Thomas, Jr. at
Loloya University; videotaped by Justin Nystrom
January 21---Premiere of "#______Lives Matter,"
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra,
The Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market; contributed
"#For Whom Does New Orleans Matter?" for program book
March 17---"Excellence in the Delta," speech
for 2016 Honors Convocation, Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, MS
April 2 ----
Panelist, "Terror and Survival in Life and Literature," 2016
Tennessee Williams Festival, Hotel Monteleone , New Orleans, LA
September 8 ---Discussion of Black Arts Movement
conference, 9-11 Sep 16, with Quo Vadis Gex Breaux and Kim McMillon. "Community Bulletin Board,"
WBOK-AM, New Orleans, LA
September 10 ---Black Arts Movement Conference: Southern
Influences
Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
Joint Keynote Address ---Askia M. Toure and Jerry W.
Ward, Jr
Panelist, Black Studies Roundtable
Moderator,
Southern Writers Roundtable [Quo Vadis Gex Breaux, Chakula Cha Jua, Mona
Lisa Saloy, Kalamu ya Salaam, C. Liegh McInnis]
September 11 --Black Arts Movement Conference: Southern
Influences
Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
Videotaped interview with Arnold Bourgeois, interviewer
October 19-21 ---Festival of "Conch-Us-nest,"
East St. Louis, MO
October 19 ---Master's Workshop and Panel, ESUSIUE Higher Education Campus,
601 J. R. Thompson Drive, East St. Louis
October 20 ---"Talk with Students," East St.
Louis Senior High School
EBR Writers Club 26th Annual
"Break Word with the World,"
ESUSIUE Higher Education Campus
October 25 ---Interviewed by David Benedetto, WRBH Radio,
New Orleans, LA
October 21 ---Tour
and Commentary, E. B. Redmond Collection & Learning Center,
Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
" A Familistic
Literary and Cultural Arts Celebration,"
Sunshine's Cultural
Arts Center, 630 N 59th Street, East St.
Louis
November 3 ---Reading and Book Launch for FRACTAL SONG, Crescent City Books/New
Orleans
Museum of Music and the Cultural
Arts
November 8 -- Taped interview with Susan Larsen for THE READING LIFE, WWNO,
University
of New Orleans
November 11-13 ---5th Convention of the Chinese/American
Association for Poetry and Poetics,
Los Angeles,
CA
November 11 ---Poetry Reading
November 13 --Moderator, Panel 3: Ethnicity and Poetry
November 13 --"The Discipline of the Kwansaba"
November 18---Lecture: "African American
Autobiography: Voices from the South."
Minzu
University (Beijing, China)
November 23 ---Lecture: "Carolyn Rodgers and
Vernacular Theorizing" --Central China Normal University (CCNU)
November 25 --Lecture:
"African American Autobiography: Voices from the South." Nanjing University of
Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT)
Lecture: "Films by Spike Lee" ---NUPT
November 28 ---Lecture:
"Tom Dent and the Imperatives of History" --CCNU
November 29 ---Lecture:
"Kevin Powell and Ta'Nehisi Coates" ---CCNU
November 30-December 1---Hubei Institute for
Nationalities, Enshi, Hubei 445000
November 30 -----Lecture: "African American
Autobiography"
Lecture: "Tom Dent and the Imperatives
of History"
December 1 --- Lecture:
"The Discipline of the Kwansaba"
December 2-4 --Ethnic Literature and the African Focus:
The 3rd International Symposium on Ethnic Literature, Hangzhou, China
December 2 ----"The Discipline of the Kwansaba"
December 5-6
---The 2nd Forum for Modern and Contemporary English Literature, Central China Normal University (Wuhan)
December 6 ---"Digital Humanities and Graduate
Education in a Future"
December 7 ---Lecture: "The Blues and Blues_Jazz of
Sterling D. Plumpp ---CCNU
December 8 ---Open Talk with English teachers at Taizhou
University
Lecture: "Why and How to Study Literature,"
Taizhou University
December 14 ---Lecture: "Richard Wright and
Adaptation"---CCNU
Lecture: "The Discipline of the Kwansaba"
---CCNU
Publications
"Footnote 666." Resisting Arrest: poems to stretch the sky. Ed. Tony Medina. Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2016: 141.
Review of African American Haiku: Cultural Visions,
ed. John Zheng. Southern Quarterly 53.3-4( 2016): 225-227.
"Online Acts of (Re)discovery: A Hypertext
Note." CLAJ 59.3 (2016):
225-231.
"Sterling D. Plumpp: A Son of the Blues." Conversations with Sterling Plumpp. Ed.
John Zheng. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016: 11-35.
FRACTAL SONG: POEMS. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2016.
Review of The
Storied South by William Ferris. Valley
Voices 16.2 (2016): 19-21.
Online publications
January 4, 2016--"Concussion" BK Nation
http://bknation.org/2016/0/concussion
January 13, 2016----"2016: Topics for Cultural
Memory"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
January 17, 2016--"George Yancy's 2015 Jeremiad." ARTS-TODAY 2.11: 44-45.
February 7, 2016 --"DNA and Deferred Dreams"
http://bknation.org/2016/02/dna-and-deferred-dreams
February 29, 2016 ---"Our Bones, Our Ashes, Our
Minds" ARTS-TODAY 2.12: 108-109
March 3, 2016 --"To trump or not to trump," BK
Nation
http://bknation.org/2016/03/to-trump-or-not-to-trump
March 7, 2016--"To trump or not to trump"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
March 14, 2016 --"History 2216"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
March 15, 2016 --"Writers and Politicians"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
March 17, 2016 --"A Woman Brave and Brilliant"
ARTS-TODAY 3.1: 38-41
April 4, 2016 --"Poetry Month 2016"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
April 11, 2016 --"Strong Readers Reading the Difficult
Long Poem"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com/2016/04/strong-readers-reading-difficult-long.html#more
April 20, 2016 --"Eugene Redmond's Drumvoices Then and
Now" ARTS-TODAY 3.2: 42-45
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.2
April 26, 2016 --"Rereading Poems from Prison"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
May 2, 2016 ---"Good Omens for Scholarship"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
May 12, 2016----"Discovery and Discipline in East St.
Louis" ARTS-TODAY 3.3: 222-223.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.3
May 16, 2016 ---"Callaloo #1 to #7"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
May 23, 2016 --"Music/Painting/Poetry: Outroducing
Expectations"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
June 1, 2016 ---"Our Bones/Our Ashes/Our Minds"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
June 17, 2016-------"Small Advantages of the Private
Intellectual", ARTS-TODAY 3.4: 30-31
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.4
June 20, 2016----"Requiem for Human Dreams"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
July 6, 2016 ----"Political Pornography"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
July 22, 2016 ------"Political Pornography" ARTS-TODAY 3.5: 10-11.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.5
August 11, 2016 ----"The Black Caucasian," BK Nation
http://bknation.org/2016/08/the-black-caucasian
August 22, 2016 ----"One Is Real. The Other is
Made-up." ARTS-TODAY 3.6:10-11.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.6a
September 22, 2016 ---"aesthetic spins of poetry and
protest." ARTS-TODAY 3.7: 137.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.7
October 19, 2016 ---"Margaret Walker and Contemporary
Education." ARTS-TODAY 3.8: 48-50.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.8
November 10, 2016 --"Book Review --The Storied South:
Voices of Writers and Artists, William Ferris."
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Professional
Activities 2016
January 21---Interviewed by Attorney Cleophus Thomas, Jr. at
Loloya University; videotaped by Justin Nystrom
January 21---Premiere of "#______Lives Matter,"
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra,
The Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market; contributed
"#For Whom Does New Orleans Matter?" for program book
March 17---"Excellence in the Delta," speech
for 2016 Honors Convocation, Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, MS
April 2 ----
Panelist, "Terror and Survival in Life and Literature," 2016
Tennessee Williams Festival, Hotel Monteleone , New Orleans, LA
September 8 ---Discussion of Black Arts Movement
conference, 9-11 Sep 16, with Quo Vadis Gex Breaux and Kim McMillon. "Community Bulletin Board,"
WBOK-AM, New Orleans, LA
September 10 ---Black Arts Movement Conference: Southern
Influences
Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
Joint Keynote Address ---Askia M. Toure and Jerry W.
Ward, Jr
Panelist, Black Studies Roundtable
Moderator,
Southern Writers Roundtable [Quo Vadis Gex Breaux, Chakula Cha Jua, Mona
Lisa Saloy, Kalamu ya Salaam, C. Liegh McInnis]
September 11 --Black Arts Movement Conference: Southern
Influences
Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
Videotaped interview with Arnold Bourgeois, interviewer
October 19-21 ---Festival of "Conch-Us-nest,"
East St. Louis, MO
October 19 ---Master's Workshop and Panel, ESUSIUE Higher Education Campus,
601 J. R. Thompson Drive, East St. Louis
October 20 ---"Talk with Students," East St.
Louis Senior High School
EBR Writers Club 26th Annual
"Break Word with the World,"
ESUSIUE Higher Education Campus
October 25 ---Interviewed by David Benedetto, WRBH Radio,
New Orleans, LA
October 21 ---Tour
and Commentary, E. B. Redmond Collection & Learning Center,
Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
" A Familistic
Literary and Cultural Arts Celebration,"
Sunshine's Cultural
Arts Center, 630 N 59th Street, East St.
Louis
November 3 ---Reading and Book Launch for FRACTAL SONG, Crescent City Books/New
Orleans
Museum of Music and the Cultural
Arts
November 8 -- Taped interview with Susan Larsen for THE READING LIFE, WWNO,
University
of New Orleans
November 11-13 ---5th Convention of the Chinese/American
Association for Poetry and Poetics,
Los Angeles,
CA
November 11 ---Poetry Reading
November 13 --Moderator, Panel 3: Ethnicity and Poetry
November 13 --"The Discipline of the Kwansaba"
November 18---Lecture: "African American
Autobiography: Voices from the South."
Minzu
University (Beijing, China)
November 23 ---Lecture: "Carolyn Rodgers and
Vernacular Theorizing" --Central China Normal University (CCNU)
November 25 --Lecture:
"African American Autobiography: Voices from the South." Nanjing University of
Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT)
Lecture: "Films by Spike Lee" ---NUPT
November 28 ---Lecture:
"Tom Dent and the Imperatives of History" --CCNU
November 29 ---Lecture:
"Kevin Powell and Ta'Nehisi Coates" ---CCNU
November 30-December 1---Hubei Institute for
Nationalities, Enshi, Hubei 445000
November 30 -----Lecture: "African American
Autobiography"
Lecture: "Tom Dent and the Imperatives
of History"
December 1 --- Lecture:
"The Discipline of the Kwansaba"
December 2-4 --Ethnic Literature and the African Focus:
The 3rd International Symposium on Ethnic Literature, Hangzhou, China
December 2 ----"The Discipline of the Kwansaba"
December 5-6
---The 2nd Forum for Modern and Contemporary English Literature, Central China Normal University (Wuhan)
December 6 ---"Digital Humanities and Graduate
Education in a Future"
December 7 ---Lecture: "The Blues and Blues_Jazz of
Sterling D. Plumpp ---CCNU
December 8 ---Open Talk with English teachers at Taizhou
University
Lecture: "Why and How to Study Literature,"
Taizhou University
December 14 ---Lecture: "Richard Wright and
Adaptation"---CCNU
Lecture: "The Discipline of the Kwansaba"
---CCNU
Publications
"Footnote 666." Resisting Arrest: poems to stretch the sky. Ed. Tony Medina. Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2016: 141.
Review of African American Haiku: Cultural Visions,
ed. John Zheng. Southern Quarterly 53.3-4( 2016): 225-227.
"Online Acts of (Re)discovery: A Hypertext
Note." CLAJ 59.3 (2016):
225-231.
"Sterling D. Plumpp: A Son of the Blues." Conversations with Sterling Plumpp. Ed.
John Zheng. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016: 11-35.
FRACTAL SONG: POEMS. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2016.
Review of The
Storied South by William Ferris. Valley
Voices 16.2 (2016): 19-21.
Online publications
January 4, 2016--"Concussion" BK Nation
http://bknation.org/2016/0/concussion
January 13, 2016----"2016: Topics for Cultural
Memory"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
January 17, 2016--"George Yancy's 2015 Jeremiad." ARTS-TODAY 2.11: 44-45.
February 7, 2016 --"DNA and Deferred Dreams"
http://bknation.org/2016/02/dna-and-deferred-dreams
February 29, 2016 ---"Our Bones, Our Ashes, Our
Minds" ARTS-TODAY 2.12: 108-109
March 3, 2016 --"To trump or not to trump," BK
Nation
http://bknation.org/2016/03/to-trump-or-not-to-trump
March 7, 2016--"To trump or not to trump"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
March 14, 2016 --"History 2216"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
March 15, 2016 --"Writers and Politicians"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
March 17, 2016 --"A Woman Brave and Brilliant"
ARTS-TODAY 3.1: 38-41
April 4, 2016 --"Poetry Month 2016"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
April 11, 2016 --"Strong Readers Reading the Difficult
Long Poem"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com/2016/04/strong-readers-reading-difficult-long.html#more
April 20, 2016 --"Eugene Redmond's Drumvoices Then and
Now" ARTS-TODAY 3.2: 42-45
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.2
April 26, 2016 --"Rereading Poems from Prison"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
May 2, 2016 ---"Good Omens for Scholarship"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
May 12, 2016----"Discovery and Discipline in East St.
Louis" ARTS-TODAY 3.3: 222-223.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.3
May 16, 2016 ---"Callaloo #1 to #7"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
May 23, 2016 --"Music/Painting/Poetry: Outroducing
Expectations"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
June 1, 2016 ---"Our Bones/Our Ashes/Our Minds"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
June 17, 2016-------"Small Advantages of the Private
Intellectual", ARTS-TODAY 3.4: 30-31
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.4
June 20, 2016----"Requiem for Human Dreams"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
July 6, 2016 ----"Political Pornography"
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
July 22, 2016 ------"Political Pornography" ARTS-TODAY 3.5: 10-11.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.5
August 11, 2016 ----"The Black Caucasian," BK Nation
http://bknation.org/2016/08/the-black-caucasian
August 22, 2016 ----"One Is Real. The Other is
Made-up." ARTS-TODAY 3.6:10-11.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.6a
September 22, 2016 ---"aesthetic spins of poetry and
protest." ARTS-TODAY 3.7: 137.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.7
October 19, 2016 ---"Margaret Walker and Contemporary
Education." ARTS-TODAY 3.8: 48-50.
https://issuu.com/artstodayezine/docs/arts_vol_3.8
November 10, 2016 --"Book Review --The Storied South:
Voices of Writers and Artists, William Ferris."
http://projecthbw.blogspot.com
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