"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
Minnie Bruce Pratt, The Union Institute and University
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Poet, author, and activist, Minnie
Bruce Pratt delivers the first Rose Gladney Lecture "When I Say
'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?" in her hometown of Centreville, Alabama.
Pratt holds a bachelor´s degree from the University of Alabama and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published five books of poetry, The Sound of One Fork, We Say We Love Each Other, Crime Against Nature, Walking Back Up Depot Street, and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, recently issued by Pitt Poetry Series. In 1989, Crime Against Nature was chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets in 1989, and won the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature in 1991. Dr. Pratt's 1992 book of autobiographical and political essays, Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her book of prose stories about gender boundary crossing, S/HE, was a finalist for the 1995 American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award, as well as a finalist for the Firecracker Award in non-fiction. Pratt has also received a Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett Award from the Fund for Free Expression and a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This inaugural Rose Gladney Lecture was originally presented at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa on March 18, 2004. Dr. Gladney is a former University of Alabama associate professor of American Studies who has devoted herself to issues of social justice and change. The Rose Gladney Lecture is hosted by the University of Alabama´s American Studies Department. For more information contact Dr. Lynne Adrian.
Also on Southern Spaces, Pratt reads her poem "No Place."
Pratt holds a bachelor´s degree from the University of Alabama and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published five books of poetry, The Sound of One Fork, We Say We Love Each Other, Crime Against Nature, Walking Back Up Depot Street, and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, recently issued by Pitt Poetry Series. In 1989, Crime Against Nature was chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets in 1989, and won the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature in 1991. Dr. Pratt's 1992 book of autobiographical and political essays, Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her book of prose stories about gender boundary crossing, S/HE, was a finalist for the 1995 American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award, as well as a finalist for the Firecracker Award in non-fiction. Pratt has also received a Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett Award from the Fund for Free Expression and a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This inaugural Rose Gladney Lecture was originally presented at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa on March 18, 2004. Dr. Gladney is a former University of Alabama associate professor of American Studies who has devoted herself to issues of social justice and change. The Rose Gladney Lecture is hosted by the University of Alabama´s American Studies Department. For more information contact Dr. Lynne Adrian.
Also on Southern Spaces, Pratt reads her poem "No Place."
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