Award-winning poet and Cave Canem fellow Arisa White will read from her work at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art as a guest of the WSU Visiting Writers Series.
The series is a system-wide offering of creative readings, class visits, workshops, and collaborative exchanges across intellectual and artistic disciplines. Arisa White is the recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Award and the Per Diem Poetry Prize and has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
She is co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, the second book in the Fighting for Justice Series for young readers. The in-person reading will also be livestreamed via the VWS YouTube channel. As the founder of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa White curates poetic collaborations that are rooted in Black queer women’s ways of knowing. Her most recent book is the poetic memoir Who’s Your Daddy.
For more information on the series, including YouTube links to upcoming readings, visit the Visiting Writers Series website.
