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This year’s award reception will celebrate the winners of the 2016-2017 Vision + Voice poetry contest which is open to all A.I.S.D. students K-12. First choice poems have been paired with art by an ACC art students to create posters, and all the winning poems have been collected into the 2016-17 anthology. Master of Ceremonies for this year’s event will be Brad Richard, chair of the creative writing program at the Lusher Charter school in New Orleans. Richard is the 2015 Louisiana Artist of the Year, and author of three collections of poems, Habitations, Motion Studies, and Butcher’s Sugar and two chapbooks, The Men in the Dark and Curtain Optional. For more information go to visionandvoice.org.

Event Details

• Date: April 28, 2017
• Time: 6:30 PM
• Venue: ACC Eastview Campus Room 8500
• Website: http://www.visionandvoice.org

Ticket Information

• Cost: Free
• Phone: 512-223-3352

Presenter Details

• Name: Austin Community College Arts and Humanities Division and Austin Independent School District

The Arts and Humanities Division offers course and degree programs to enrich lives, enhance understanding, and prepare students for employment by cultivating skills in language, critical thinking, and creativity. A.I.S.D. is the heart of public education in Austin, Tx-- a city of ideas and innovation that tops the nation's rankings of the best communities in which to work and live.

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