"The 51st Dream State"
Sekou Sundiata
Sekou Sundiata is a poet who writes for print, performance, music and theater. He has been a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Fellow, a Columbia University Revson Fellow, a Master Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), the first Writer-in-Residence at the New School University, and he is currently a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts Fellow. He was featured in the Bill Moyers' PBS series on poetry, The Language of Life, and as part of Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on HBO. Sundiata is currently a professor at Eugene Lang College in New York City.
This talk is part of his one week campus residency featuring in conjunction with the Lively Arts productions of the 51st (dream) state, his multimedia exploration of national identity imagined as a mythic "State of the American Soul" address.