BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//91¶ĢŹÓʵ - ECPv6.15.15//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 91¶ĢŹÓʵ REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T210000 DTSTAMP:20260925T151810 CREATED:20210907T161557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210907T162250Z UID:102138-1632335400-1632344400@tricities.wsu.edu SUMMARY:WSU Visiting Writers Series DESCRIPTION:[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mark your calendars! WSU Visiting Writers Series invites you to a semester of free public in-person and live-streamed readings\, Q&As\, book signings\, and museum exhibits.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”102144″ img_size=”medium” qode_css_animation=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Zoe Hana MikutaĀ | YAĀ Fiction[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Zoe Hana Mikuta is a Korean-American writer currently attending the University of Washington in Seattle where she is majoring in English with a creative writing focus and minoring in History of Religion. She grew up in Boulder\, Colorado\, where she developed a deep love of Muay Thai kickboxing and nurtured a slow and steady infatuation for fictional worlds. She enjoys writing about deteriorating worlds inhabited by characters with bad tempers\, skewed morals\, and big hearts. Her YA wlw sci-fi debutĀ GearbreakersĀ was published by Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan in June 2021. An untitled sequel will follow in 2022.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Wednesday\, September 22\, 2021Ā  |Ā  6:30 P.M.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Watch live on YouTube![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”102143″ img_size=”medium” qode_css_animation=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Haki R. MadhubutiĀ | Poetry[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Haki R. Madhubuti is an award-winning poet\, one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement\, an essayist\, educator\, founder and publisher (Emeritus) of Third World Press (1967) and Third World Press Foundation. He is the author/editor of over thirty-six books of poetry and nonfiction includingĀ Don’t Cry\, ScreamĀ (1969)\,Ā Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet’s HandbookĀ (2004)\,Ā YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s LifeĀ (2006);Ā Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1967-2009Ā (2009)\,Ā Honoring genius\, Gwendolyn Brooks: The narrative of Craft\, Art\, Kindness and JusticeĀ (2011); and the best-sellingĀ Black Men: Obsolete\, Single\, Dangerous?Ā (1991). A long-time community activist and institution builder\, Madhubuti is a co-founder of the Institute of Positive Education and its three schools in Chicago. He retired in 2011 after a forty-two-year distinguished teaching career that included Cornell University\, Howard University\, Chicago State University where he was appointed its first University Distinguished Professor and was the founding Director of its MFA Program in Creative Writing\, and DePaul University\, where he served as the last Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor. Madhubuti’s most recent books are\,Ā Taking Bullets: Terrorism and Black Life in Twenty-First Century AmericaĀ (2016)\, co-editor ofĀ Not Our President: New Directions From the Pushed Out\, the Others\, and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen AmericaĀ (2017) andĀ Taught By Women: Poems As Resistance Language New And SelectedĀ (2020).[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Tuesday\, October 5\, 2021Ā  |Ā  6:00 P.M.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Watch live on YouTube![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”102142″ img_size=”medium” qode_css_animation=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Brian BlanchfieldĀ | Prose[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose\, includingĀ Proxies: Essays Near KnowingĀ andĀ A Several World\, which received\, respectively\, a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and the 2014 Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award.Ā  His recent work appears inĀ The Oxford American\,Ā Grand\,Ā Tin House\,Ā A Public Space\,Ā The Map Is Not the Territory\,Ā Northwest Review\,Ā Textual Practice\, andĀ Chicago Review.Ā  A finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir and the recipient of fellowships from the Howard Foundation and the Idaho Council for the Arts\, Blanchfield teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars and directs the MFA writing program at the University of Idaho.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Tuesday\, October 19\, 2021Ā  |Ā  5:30 P.M.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Watch live on YouTube![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:/event/wsu-visiting-writers-series/ LOCATION:YouTube\, WA\, United States CATEGORIES:academic,Calendar,Event,Professional Development,student ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/WSU-Visiting-Writing-Center-Series.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR