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English: Receive, Reconcile, React: A Reading to Celebrate National Poetry Month English: Receive, Reconcile, React: A Reading to Celebrate National Poetry Month

April 5, 2024: 12:15 p.m.1:30 p.m.

, Harvey Auditorium

This event is free and open to the public to attend. It is also a come and go event.

Guest Readers:

  • James E Cherry is a poet, fiction writer, professor, literary activist, and impresario. He is the author of four books of poetry, two novels, and a collection of short fiction. His latest collection of poetry, Between Chance and Mercy, is forthcoming from Willow Books. He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, a Lillian Smith Book Award, and a Next Generation Indie Book Award. His writings have been published in journals and anthologies both in the U.S. and internationally.
  • Dr. Patricia Hamilton, Professor of English at 51社区, is the author of The Distance to Nightfall (Main Street Rag). She won the 2015 and 2017 Rash Award in Poetry, and her poem "Lipstick" was a Plainsongs Award poem in 2022. She has received three Pushcart nominations for poetry. Her work has been published in the U.K., Ireland, and Australia as well as in numerous journals in the U.S.

James E Cherry