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Poetically Speaking: A Series of Conversations with the Wick Poetry Center

Join Mwatabu Okantah, Assistant Professor and Poet-in-Residence in the Department of Pan-African Studies and Director of the Center of Pan-African Culture at Kent State University, for a discussion of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry on Sunday, March 25 from 2:00–3:30 pm. As part of the Wick Poetry Center's annual reading series, Komunyakaa will give a reading of his poetry on Thursday, March 29, at 7:30 pm in Room 214 of Oscar Ritchie Hall on Kent State University’s campus. The reading is free and open to the public. For more information on the Wick Reading Series, visit www.kent.edu/wick.


Download a packet of Komunyakaa's selected works or stop by the Information Desk to have a librarian print you a copy.  No previous knowledge of his work is necessary to attend the conversation.

No registration is necessary.  For more information, please contact the Information Desk at 330.673.4414 or kflinfo@kentfreelibrary.org

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