Sponsored by the Imaginarium of the Bluegrass, the event will feature a poetry reading and photography by more than 20 local artists (including our very own English major, Jiv Johnson), as well as a dramatic reading of Walt Whitman poems. The admission is $10 or pay by poem (original or otherwise!) and tickets can be purchased in advance at http://www.lexingtonky.gov/index.aspx?page=3503.

Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon, and many others. She is the co-editor of PANK. She is also the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, and Hunger, forthcoming from Harper in 2016.

This reading is co-sponsored by African American and Africana Studies Program and Department of Gender and Women's Studies.