Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Arts & Culture
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Arts & Culture

Spoken-Word Poetry Program to Feature Carvens Lissaint, Zora Howard

Thursday, April 24, 2014, By News Staff
Share

Verbal Blend, a spoken-word poetry program housed within the Office of Multicultural Affairs, will host “From the Stage to the Page” with poets Carvens Lissaint and Zora Howard of The Strivers Row on Tuesday, April 29, at 8 p.m. in the Schine Student Center Underground.

Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free with a ticket from the Schine Box Office.

“’From the Page to the Stage’ will provide an excellent venue for students to experience how to captivate an audience with their words,” says Cedric Bolton, coordinator for student engagement in the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Carvens Lissaint

Carvens Lissaint

Lissaint is an award-winning performance/teaching artist who has been gracing stages and classrooms around the United States, United Kingdom and the Caribbean. He is the author of “The Inspiration, From: Heart To: Page.” Lissaint has been named one of The Root’s Top 30 performance poets. Some of his performances include on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theater, the Off Broadway Hip Hop Theater Festival, the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the U.S. Green Build Council in Arizona and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he was featured on the second and third seasons of the hit television series “Verses and Flow” on TV One.

Lissaint will be attending New York University-Tisch School of the Arts for an M.F.A. in acting this fall. He has a degree in acting from the American Academy for Dramatic Arts, and is in his final year at St. Johns University majoring in dramatic arts for film and television.

Zora Howard

Zora Howard

Howard is a Harlem-raised writer and actress. Through spoken word poetry, she has been able to perform her work at such venues as the Apollo Theater, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Her collaboration with filmmaker Lisa Russell on the short film “Biracial Hair,” based on her original poem of the same title, won an Emmy for Outstanding Advanced Media Interactivity in 2009. Also in 2009, she was named the inaugural New York City Youth Poet Laureate by the Office of the Mayor.

Howard published her first collection of poems, “CLUTCH.” In recognition of both her academic and artistic accomplishments, she was honored as one of Glamour Magazine’s 2011 Amazing Women of the Year. Howard is now in her final year at Yale University, where she is a double major in comparative literature and American studies.

For more information, contact Bolton at 315-443-9676 or ctbolton@syr.edu.

  • Author

News Staff

  • Recent
  • IVMF Receives $3M Grant to Empower Rural Veteran-Owned Businesses
    Wednesday, October 4, 2023, By Charlie Poag
  • Mathematics Professors Receive NSF Grants to Study Algebra
    Wednesday, October 4, 2023, By News Staff
  • Good Reads: School of Education’s Summer Literacy Clinic Takes an Inquiry-Based Approach
    Tuesday, October 3, 2023, By Martin Walls
  • Maxwell Professor Kristy Buzard Explores Gender Disparities in Economics
    Tuesday, October 3, 2023, By News Staff
  • ‘Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching’ Co-Author to Give Public Talk and Faculty Workshop Oct. 11-12
    Tuesday, October 3, 2023, By News Staff

More In Arts & Culture

Good Reads: School of Education’s Summer Literacy Clinic Takes an Inquiry-Based Approach

It’s officially called the Summer Literacy Clinic, but there’s much more to it than one-on-one reading and tutoring. True, when you enter the library of Roberts PreK-8 School in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD), you see third- and fourth-grade…

‘Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching’ Co-Author to Give Public Talk and Faculty Workshop Oct. 11-12

On Oct. 11 and 12, Bryan Dewsbury. Ph.D., will visit campus as part of the Focus on Teaching and Learning Pathways to Deep Learning series, co-hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) and the Office of Institutional…

What’s Happening in CNY: Your Fun Fall Activity Guide

Fall in Central New York (CNY) has so much to offer. Whether you are looking to find the best time to see the leaves change or want to partake in a festival or a fun fall activity, we have put…

Orange Central 2023 in Photos

The University welcomed about 2,000 alumni and friends back to campus to celebrate Orange Central and Law Alumni Weekend. From tailgating to special reunion events and open houses, the campus was alive with excitement, memories and good times. Check out…

Syracuse University Press Participating in Path to Open Program

Syracuse University Press is participating in Path to Open, a groundbreaking collaboration between university presses, libraries and JSTOR, to promote sustainable open-access publishing of high-quality scholarly eBooks and increase meaningful engagement with them. Through the program, Syracuse University Press will…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • X
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2023 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.