Human Rights Film Series Closes with Special Guest Sam Hazo

Repression and Resilience, the sixth annual Duquesne University Human Rights Film Series, wraps up on Thursday, Feb. 21, with a free screening of Poetry of Resilience. The documentary explores the work of six international poets who separately survived Hiroshima, the Holocaust, China’s Cultural Revolution, the Kurdish genocide in Iraq, the Rwandan genocide and the Iranian Revolution.

After the film, special guest speaker Dr. Samuel J. Hazo, McAnulty Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and founder of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, will read selections of his own poetry. Hazo, who served as the first state poet for Pennsylvania from 1993 to 2003, is also a playwright and novelist.

The screening, which is open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. in Room 105 of College Hall.

The Human Rights Film Series is presented by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. For more information, call 412.396.6415.