PSCC Libraries: Common Academic Experience 2017-2018: Convocation

Fall Convocation

2017

Fall Convocation

Portrait of Janine Joseph. Photo by Jaclyn Heward.

September 5th, 12:30 pm, Hardin Valley campus CPAC

Welcome back students and faculty! We are pleased to introduce our fall convocation speaker, Janine Joseph. Joseph is an essayist and a poet, and winner of the 2014 Kundiman Poetry Prize. She currently lives in Stillwater, OK, where she is an Assistant Professor for Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University. During Convocation, Joseph will be sharing her experiences as an undocumented immigrant and her journal through various spaces within American Life. Join us to learn more about her amazing journey!

To learn more about Janine Joseph and her work checkout her website.

Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph
Publication Date: 2016
"Janine Joseph writes with an open and easy intimacy. The language here is at once disruptive and familiar, political and sensual, and tinged by the melancholy of loss and the discomforting radiance of redemption. A strong debut." --Chris Abani

The best way to hide is in plain sight. In this politically-charged and candid debut, we follow the chronicles of an undocumented immigrant speaker over a twenty-year span as she grows up in the foreign and forbidding landscape of America.