Campus and Albany Communities Attend Remembrance of Toni Morrison
ALBANY, N.Y. (Feb. 20, 2020) — The University paid tribute to Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison on Tuesday, her birthday. Morrison, who died in 2019, was part of the UAlbany community from 1985 to 1989 as the Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities.
Tributes were paid in both poetry and prose. President Rodríguez and NYS Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl spoke of the lasting impact Morrison had upon the University, the Capital Region and the literary world. Professor of English Leonard Slade Jr. and alum Danielle Colin read poems they had dedicated to Morrison.
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