Events

Come celebrate the launch of the inaugural issue of

Spelman College's literary journal 'Aunt Chloe'

Thursday, April 16, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Cosby Academic Center Auditorium
Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, Atlanta, GA 30314
Directions to Campus

The celebration will feature poets Kevin Vaughn and Allison Joseph with special guests Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, co-founders
of Cave Canem, the premier home for Black poetry.

Event Program

Reception

Greetings — Beverly Daniel Tatum, President

Introduction— Sharan Strange, Instructor of English

From Focus Magazine to Aunt Chloe — Kyla Marshell, Editor-in-Chief, Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor

Announcement of prize-winners — Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Chair, English Department

A reading by Kevin Vaughn

A reading by Allison Joseph

Introduction of Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Opal Moore, Assoc. Professor of English

A conversation between Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady

Closing Remarks — Kyla Marshell

This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc.
With special thanks to Title III, Hallmark, the Office of the Provost, Spelman College Creative Writing Program, and English Department.

Aunt Choloe: Behind the Name

Formerly Focus Magazine, Aunt Chloe is the 42 year-old literary journal of Spelman College. The name Aunt Chloe was inspired by the poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, who wrote a series of poems about a freed slave named Aunt Chloe Fleet, and by Toni Morrison, who was born Chloe Anthony Wofford.

These women, though years apart in time and with entirely different life experiences, are cut from the same principled fabric. To each, decency, humanity, and candor are of the utmost importance—the beacons by which they light their lives, and the lives of others.

Aunt Chloe is a journal for people who have reclaimed the spaces denied them by cultural and historical tyranny. She belongs to any of us who have been pushed out of the spotlight, yet through art, literature, and dialogue have re-chosen where we belong.