Keeping The
Dream Alive!

2014-2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Series

february 17, 2015
Gemmell Multipurpose Room

7 pm

Christopher “Cee” Williams
Erie County Poet Laureate

Cee Williams is a resident of Erie and
the author of three chapbook-length
collections of poetry, Bus Riders in the
Storm, My America — 9 Poems for Sister
Lucille, and 12 Poems. Williams is a twotime finalist for the Erie County Poet
Laureate Award. He was a recipient of
a 2014 Chautauqua Writers Grant and
received the 2011 Erie Metropolitan Yellow
Pages Award for Business Innovation.
In 2010, Williams founded Poets’ Hall
and Poets’ Hall Press, both non-profit
endeavors which he operates near his alma
mater, East High School. His poetry has
been showcased in Bathtub Gin, Traveling
Poet, Nostrovia Poetry, Walking is Still
Honest Press, and in The Voices of Erie
County Anthology, edited by 2009 Erie
County Poet Laureate Berwyn Moore.

Sponsored by:
Martin Luther King Jr. Committee
Minority Student Services
English Department
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