Carole Boston Weatherford visits Randall Library on Friday, February 16th.
Carole Boston Weatherford is the award-winning author of numerous picture books for children, including The Sound That Jazz Makes, an NAACP
Image Award finalist; Juneteenth Jamboree, which appears on the Black Books Galore! list of
Best Books for Girls; and Grandma and Me, a Black Issues Book Review Children's Paperback
Best. Her poetry is collected in The Tar Baby on the Soapbox and the prizewinning volume,
The Tan Chanteuse, and appears in the The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury anthology.
Her poems have also appeared in numerous literary journals including: Calyx, Greensboro Review, Callaloo and
African-American Review.
She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an M.A. in Publications Design
from the University of Baltimore.
Please visit Carole's Web site at http://www.caroleweatherford.com
Carole Boston Weatherford
Friday, February 16th
4:00-6:00pm
Randall Library Auditorium
This event is sponsored by the Upperman African American Cultural Center at UNCW. All UNCW Students, Staff and Faculty are welcome to attend and refreshments will be served.