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Events2007-2008 Event ScheduleMarch 17: Burlington High School, Burlington, VT April 11: The Dalton School, NYC April 16th: Dobra Tea House, Burlington, VT May 2: Phoenix Books & Cafe, 21 Essex Way #407, Essex Vermont 05452, 802.872.7111 June 22-28th: Pine Manor Solstice Summer Writers' Conference, Chestnut Hill, MA (www.pmc.edu/ July 11-20: Pine Manor MFA in Creative Writing Program Summer Residency, Chestnut Hill, MA (www.pmc.edu/ August 11-December 30: University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Event SchedulingLaban Hill is available to visit your school, library or organization. He has created a multimedia presentations that take the audience through either the 1960s cultural revolution or the Harlem Renaissance, its music, its art, its literature, and its culture. Each presentation is 40 minutes long with discussion and questions afterwards. Hill is also available to give readings, talks and creative writing workshops. Contact: labanhill@ |
Selected Works1. Nonfiction
America Dreaming
How Youth Changed America
"Phenomenal."–Howard Zinn "Excellent."–New York Times Book Review Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
“Harlem Stomp! is a wonderous new book: it celebrates a time, a place, an energy, and a people who refused to be held back and so they created a culture the entire world is still reeling from.” --George C. Wolfe, writer, director, and producer of the Public Theater, NYC 2. Fiction
A Brush with Napoleon
A seventeen-year-old is plucked out of the Grande Armee to sit in place of Napoleon for a portrait of the Emperor by the artist David. Casa Azul
"I felt like a kid reading every word on the page! I liked the strains of "magic realism" coming through in Frida's house! Children will relate to this very much! The story is charming and reads like a thriller." –Margarita Aguilar, Assisant Curator, El Museo del Barrio 3. Poetry
Dave the Potter
A picturebook poem describing the life of the slave potter Dave. Contemporary Poetry of New England
“Contemporary Poetry of New England offers a vivid portrait of a region, its colors and smells, its physical and emotional textures, and the people…. It presents a range of poets, few of whom would call themselves a “region poet,” although each has taken to heart in a private way Frost’s haunting dictum: ‘Locality gives art.’” --from the Introduction 4. Middle Grade Series
Xtreme Mysteries
These kids love extreme sports--snowboarding, skateboarding, rock climbing, wake boarding--and are ready to fight when the right to do their sport is threatened. |
