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SUMMARY:Kiese Laymon Reading 
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 Cosponsored by the MSU Department of English.\n
 \n
 Kiese 
 Laymon is a black southern writer, born 
 and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon 
 attended Millsaps College and Jackson State 
 University before graduating from Oberlin College. 
 He earned an MFA from Indiana University 
 and is the author of the novel Long Division 
 and a collection of essays, How to Slowly 
 Kill Yourself and Others in America. Long Division 
 was named one of the Best Books of 2013 
 by a number of publications, including Buzzfeed, 
 The Believer, Salon, Guernica, Mosaic Magazine, 
 Chicago Tribune, The Morning News, MSNBC, 
 Library Journal, Contemporary Literature, 
 and the Crunk Feminist Collective. Both of 
 Laymon's book are finalists for the Mississippi 
 Award for Arts and Letters in the fiction 
 and nonfiction categories. Long Division is currently 
 a finalist for Stanford's Saroyan international 
 writing award. Laymon is an Associate 
 Professor of English at Vassar College.\n
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 Facebook 
 event: https://www.facebook.com/events/293047850900767/\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: RCAH Center for Poetry\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-1932\n
 Contact email: cpoetry@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/calendar.html\n
LOCATION:RCAH Theater
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