Event time:
Monday, February 13, 2023 - 5:00pm
Location:
LC 317
Event description:
Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, He is the 2023 Rosenkranz Writer-In-Residence at Yale University.