Tuesday, September 15, 2009

An Evening of Poetry


Yusef Komunyakaa, a Pulitzer Prize-winner for poetry, will read from his work on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in the Campus Center Ballroom at the University of West Georgia. Komunyakaa is the author of numerous books of poems with his most recent collection released in September 2008.
The reading is free to students, faculty, staff and the wider community.This event is co-sponsored by the department of English and Philosophy, the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the Office of Institutional Diversity, Ingram Library’s Penelope Melson Society and the Creative Writing Program. Copies of the author’s numerous books will be available for purchase at the reading, and a book signing will follow.

For more information, contact Jonette Larrew at (678) 839-6512.

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