Thursday, October 17, 2019 @7:30pm – 10:30pm

Hefter Center 3271 North Lake Drive

Please join us in celebrating 50 years of Creative Writing at UWM with a reading by poet and essayist Derrick Harriell.

Derrick Harriell resides in Oxford MS and teaches in the English and African American Studies programs at the University of Mississippi where he also directs the Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program. His poem collections are Cotton (Aquarius Press- Willow Books 2010), Ropes (Aquarius Press- Willow Books 2013- winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award), and Stripper in Wonderland (LSU Press 2017). His poems and essays have been published widely.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.