Award-Winning Poet Alysia Harris To Speak, Perform at UC

Award-winning poet

Alysia Nicole Harris

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

Duncanson Society

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.