Tyehimba Jess Poetry Reading

Tyehimba Jess will read his work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27 in University of Detroit Mercy's Chemistry Building (Room 114). Jess is a Detroit Native who won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for poetry with his book Olio. In 2004, his book Leadbelly was a winner of the National Poetry Series.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit https://udmercy.edu/english.

Visitors to University of Detroit Mercy’s McNichols campus should enter through the McNichols entrance and park in Parking Lot A: https://www.udmercy.edu/about/files/mcnichols-map.pdf

For more information on Tyehimba Jess: https://www.tyehimbajess.net.

This event is co-sponsored by Detroit Mercy's Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts & Education, the African American Studies Program, and the Black Abolitionist Archive

Host or Publisher Detroit Mercy English Department