Award-Winning Poet Alysia Harris To Speak, Perform at UC
Award-winning poet
will speak on advocacy through the spoken word Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the University of Cincinnati.
Harris will speak on scholarship, the arts and activism at 2:30 p.m. at the Tangeman University Center, room 425, followed by a 4 p.m. performance at the Mick & Mack Café.
The event is in partnership with the
of the Taft Museum of Art, which selected Harris as its 2015 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence. Harris performs her poems with an eye toward healing and sees her work as promoting transparency, a guilt-free spirituality, racial reckoning and reconciliation.
Harris is a Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize in 2014 and 2015, and was a finalist for the 2014 Edwin Markham and Joy Harjo prizes and for the 2013 Indiana Review Prize. She received her MFA in poetry from NYU and is currently a PhD candidate in linguistics at Yale University.
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