Arthur Flowers

The first installment of the spring semester’s Red Dragon Reading Series at SUNY Oneonta will feature novelist, memoirist and children’s book author Arthur Flowers on Tuesday, Feb. 7.

The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Center for Multicultural Experiences in Lee Hall. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.

A Vietnam veteran, blues singer, co-founder of the New Renaissance Writer’s Guild and a Memphis native, Flowers considers himself a contemporary griot, referring to the storytellers of ancient African societies who passed on the history of their people to future generations through the oral tradition. His works include novels “De Mojo Blues” and “Another Good Loving Blues,” a memoir, “Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman,” and a graphic novel, “I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.”

Winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Foundation for the Arts, Flowers is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University.

This event is sponsored by the SUNY Oneonta Office of the President, Department of English, Center for Multicultural Experiences and Office of Equity and Inclusion, and the Damascene Book Cellar at the Red Dragon Bookstore.

More information is available from Dr. Roger Hecht at 436-3033 or Ruth Carr at 436-3446.