National Day of Racial Healing: Writers Give Voice

National Day of Racial Healing:
Writers Give Voice
Tuesday, January 17, 1:45-2:45 p.m.
Pavilion Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

In honor of the National Day of Racial Healing at WSU, join us for an hour of readings by WSU Campus Civic Poets & finalists, creative writing students and faculty, and student editors of WSU creative writing publications. Students are encouraged sign up at the event to share a poem during the open-mic portion, which will conclude the event. Copies of selected poems from the canon will be available to read, as well as work from WSU’s Visiting Writer Series authors and Blood Orange Review / LandEscapes / EcoArts on the Palouse contributors. In collaboration with the Holland Terrell Library’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), the event will be accompanied by a letterpress printing of the poem A Small Needful Fact by WSU Visiting Writers Series author Ross Gay. “A Small Needful Fact” by Ross Gay was originally published through Split This Rock’s The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database.

Thanks to Cameron McGill, Linda Russo, and Bryan Fry from the Department of English for organizing this program. Thanks to Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections for their letterpress collaboration.

STUDENT PARTICIPATION | WSU students are encouraged to attend the English Department Open Mic on January 12, 2023 as an opportunity to prepare for Writers Give Voice.

QUESTIONS? | Contact Kristin Becker, Curator of Education & Programs: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu

LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. The museum is currently open Tuesday through Friday from 1-4 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed Sunday and Monday.

Photo Credit: Kristin Becker