Press Releases 2004

January 26, 2004

African American History Month Program

The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Panama presents in honor of Black History month

“You Alone are Dancing”
"“Sea Baths”

and poems by Maya Angelou at the National Library (Biblioteca Nacional), February 5, 2004, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m
by Brenda Fillips Flanagan, storyteller, writer, poet from the United States of America

Brenda Flanagan was born in Trinidad but currently resides in Davidson, North Carolina, USA. She attained a BA with distinction in 1977, and an MA in 1978, both from the University of Michigan. She obtained her Ph.D there, in 1986. An prolific creative writer, Flanagan has received numerous awards and has published a vast array of plays, short stories and one novel, to date. She is currently Professor of English at Davidson College in North Carolina, where she teaches Caribbean and African-American literature, as well as Creative Writing. Novels: You Alone Are Dancing (1990) Short Stories: Shango (1979), On a Point of Order (1987), The Green Card (1988), To Die of Old Age in a Foreign Country (1990), Gloria's Shop (1993) and others Plays: When the Jumbie Bird Calls (`1991) Awards: Summer Research Awards, Davidson College: 1997, 1998, Faculty Recognition Award for publication, EMU: 1990, Continuing Education of Women Scholar Award: 1986, Avery and Julie Hopwood Awards (novel, drama and short fiction): 1985, 1986, 1978, Mellon Foundation Award: 1981, and others

“Stories are never true, yet we believe them”