April 1, 1999		Oberlin College English Department to Host Two Events April 8 and 9 Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
	GUEST LECTURE Kathryne Lindberg Thursday, April 8 4:30 p.m. Wilder Hall Room 115 135 W. Lorain St.   POETRY READING Murray Jackson Friday, April 9 7:30 p.m. Afrikan Heritage House 126 Forest St. Free and open to the public.		OBERLIN, OH--Oberlin College's English Department will host a guest lecture by Kathryne Lindberg April 8 and a poetry reading by Murray Jackson April 9. Both events are sponsored by the department's Flint Fund and will be followed by a reception. Lindberg, professor of English and Africana Studies at Wayne State University, will discuss the topic "Cleaver, Newton, and Davis: Panther Poetry and the Topology of Violence." Professor Lindberg's talk will be drawn from her forthcoming book From Claude McKay to Huey Newton: Revolutionary Intercommunalism and Black Syndicalist Lyrics, (Princeton University Press). She received her Ph.D. from UCLA and published her first book, Reading Pound Reading , in 1987. Lindberg's essays have been reprinted in anthologies that define the standards for her field, including National Identities and Post-American Identities, Donald Pease, ed. (Duke University Press 1994 ), and the forthcoming Reading Race in American Poetry: An Area of Act, Aldon Nielson, ed. (University of Illinois Press). Her work also has appeared in scholarly journals such as boundary 2 and Discourse. Murray Jackson will give a reading from his work-in-progress Running to Catch the Past: Detroit Verses. He is the author of Watermelon Rinds and Cherry Pits (Broadside Press 1991). The Detroit artist began writing poetry after an active career in Detroit's municipal government, where he focused primarily on the politics of urban higher education.