For Colored Girls Review

Hello and welcome back fellow tigers!

            I hope that you all enjoyed Professor Williams’ interview and her song snippet that she gave us last week! Although brief, I enjoyed meeting Prof. Williams and I am looking forward to attending “Green Kabaret”. Also, we would like to congratulate the athletic department on their many victories last week.

            As you may have heard in some of your classes, we are hosting a screening and panel discussion on Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls, who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf.”  We hope to have a lot of people to come out for both events.  If your professor is offering any extra credit please take notes, and be respectful of your peers.  The version of “for colored girls”, that will be shown Friday at 10:30 a.m., is far from the Tyler Perry adaptation that we all became acquainted with a few years back. Yes, Tyler Perry did give a modern view on some poems however, for someone like me who had never heard of the original choreopoem until two weeks ago it is very misleading.  After reading and listening to the entire play, I have come to love it; it makes me want to try to incorporate some of Shange’s writing styles into my own poetry, or creating a genre of my own.

            The panel discussion will include students and faculty that will share their own point of view of the poem.  Our peer, Ms. Kamri Jordan, will be featured on the panel. She will discuss if she had any difficulties reading the poem, and if it is relatable to her and her work.  She will also discuss what she can take from Shange’s writing style and incorporate into her own work.

We look forward to seeing everyone bright and early Friday morning at 10:30 in the LRC (student success) auditorium, and at 1:00pm for the panel and performances. If your professors aren’t offering extra credit, still come and support your peers.

Sincerely,

AB