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As part of our Black History Month celebration, we are honored to host Dr. Ramona Hyman, who will be presenting some poetry readings from her collections. Dr. Hyman will also be available to speak briefly to/with attendees and signed purchased books. ABOUT DR. HYMAN
Dr. Ramona L. Hyman is a writer, speaker and educator "whose words are powerful memories for us to walk in the 21 st century, " says Sonia Sanchez.
Of her literary work, African American critic, Dr. Joyce Joyce says, "Hyman challenges audiences to explore a poetic imagination grounded in a feel for the southern landscape, African American literary and political history, Black spirituality, and a creative fusion of Black folk speech with a Euro American poetic vernacular.” Dr. Ramona L. Hyman emerges as a strong Black intellectual poetic voice."
Dr. Hyman is a graduate of Temple University (BA), Andrews University (MA), and earned her PhD from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Dr. Hyman's work has been included in journals and anthologies such as the Ministry, African American Pulpit, Message, African American Review, Spectrum, Ministry, the Journal of Adventist Education, College Language Association Journal, Obsidian, and Callaloo. She has been anthologized in Amiri and Amina Baraka's An Anthology of African American Women Writers (Marrow Press) and Jonathan Thompson's The Enduring Legacy of Ellen G. White and Social Justice. (Pacific Press, 2017). She is the author of two collections of poetry, In the Sanctuary of a South and I Am Black America. She is the coeditor of African American Seventh-day Adventist Healers in a Multi-cultural Nation (Pacific Press) and the children’s book Grandma Annie’s Poetry.
Dr. Hyman's work has been cited in texts such as: Wardi, Anissa Janine Death and the Arc of Mourning in African American Literature. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
Dr. Hyman has been the recipient of an Alabama Humanities Grant, Alabama State Council on the Arts Grant and the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers' grant. She has served as an adjudicator for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alabama Humanities Alliance.
In 2021, Dr. Hyman was appointed by the Governor of the state of Alabama to serve as a Governor's appointee to the Alabama State Arts Council.
Dr. Hyman's speaking topics are: "Montgomery 55 on My Mind: Success Lessons from the Boycott,” Creative Writing: from Poetry to Book,” “Using Creative Writing Processes to Enhance Organizational Processes,” and “Poetry as Witness.”
Dr. William Ferris, former Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Clinton administration, says "Hyman's skills as an actor and writer are rare."
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