The Role of the Poet in Our Times
A Reading and Lecture by Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Jorie Graham
Thursday, April 21, 2016 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
Center for the Arts, Grand Tier III
Please join us for a reading and lecture by the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winning poet Jorie Graham. She will read her own and others’ work and speak about the importance of poetry and the humanities in today’s world at the 2016 Vernon and Margarette Gras Lecture in the Humanities.
This event is free and open to the public and will be held on George Mason’s Fairfax Campus, at the Center for the Arts in the Grand Tier III Ballroom on Thursday, April 21st, from 7:30 – 9:30 P.M. Refreshments will be provided.
The Vernon and Margarette Gras Lecture in the Humanities features eminent scholars whose work is dedicated to pressing issues in humanities and issues of importance to scholarship and the world at large.
More information can be found HERE.
This event is brought to you by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of English, the Creative Writing Program, and the GMU Folklore Roundtable.
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