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Author appearance: Sapphire - Push, Literacy, Women and African American Literature at Michigan Union - U-M

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1/18 2 p.m.

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Sponsored by the University Library. Cosponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, University Housing, Bentley Historical Library, Law Library, and the School of Information.
Event speaker: Sapphire. In the Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom. MLibrary welcomes you to a presentation by the award-winning poet, author, and educator, Sapphire. Author of several books of poetry, Sapphire’s work has been published in The Black Scholar, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Teacher’s Voice, The New Yorker, Spin, and Bomb.

"Precious", the film adaptation of Sapphire’s bestselling novel "Push", recently won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Lee Daniels and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, Precious is widely anticipated to be an Oscar-contender. Push tells the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones, an overweight African-American teenager struggling to find her place in the world despite her history of incest, abuse and illiteracy.

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