02/24/2010 7:00 pm
Moonstone Arts Center
110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, 215-735-9600,www.moonstoneartscenter.org
You are invited to join us in remembering Don Belton, who was murdered on December 28, 2009. We invite you to share your stories to celebrate Don’s life. Please bring something to eat or drink to share as well.
Don Belton is the author of a novel,Almost Midnight, and editor of Speak My Name, an anthology exploring the gulf between real and represented black masculinity. Belton’s writings have appeared in literary reviews, literature anthologies, cultural journals, and popular magazines and newspapers. He has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference at Middlebury College, Macdowell and Yadoo artists colonies, the Rockefeller Center in Italy, and the Center for Media Studies at Brown University. He has taught literature, fiction and world cinema at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Macalester College
and the University of Pennsylvania. He lectured on James Baldwin at the first African American Writers in Europe Conference at the Sorbonne; on black literature and black popular culture in the Ivory Coast of West Africa; and on Robert Mapplethorpe at the University
of Sao Paulo, School of Communications and Arts, Brazil. His writing and teaching interests include writers in community and exile, and writing about home.
