Savannah State University University News November 3, 2016 Savannah State hosts the BreakBeat Poets Savannah State University's (SSU) The Write Attitude<http://qep.savannahstate.edu/> will host the BreakBeat Poets<http://www.breakbeatpoets.com/> on Thursday, November 10, in Student Union ballroom C. They will offer a poetry workshop at 2 p.m. and a reading at 4:30 p.m. These events are free and open to the public. Workshop participants are asked to register at qep.savannahstate.edu<https://savannahstate-stnjb.formstack.com/forms/breakbeat_poetry_workshop>. Samantha Thornhill<http://www.savannahstate.edu/news/www.samanthaspeaks.com> is a Trinidadian poet, writer, performer and educator. Thornhill, a Henry Hoyns and Cave Canem fellow, earned her master's degree in poetry from the University of Virginia in 2004. Her poems have been published in more than 20 journals and anthologies. Quraysh Ali Lansana<https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/quraysh-ali-lansana> is the author of the poetry collections They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems and Southside Rain. Currently, Lansana is on faculty in the creative writing program of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and the Red Earth MFA creative writing program at Oklahoma City University. The Write Attitude, SSU's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), focuses both on learning outcomes and also on environmental factors to create a culture of writing that will have a positive impact on student, faculty and staff attitudes, as well as practices in writing. SANDRA M. PHOENIX HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta, GA 30314 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org/ sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org%3cmailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org>> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/