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91传媒 to host two award-winning poets

Stacy Gnall, left, and Tyehimba Jess

The public, students, staff and faculty are invited to hear two nationally award-winning poets read from their work at 91传媒. 

Stacy Gnall will read from her new book Dogged at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6 in the Bargman Room of the McNichols Campus Library. Dogged won the 2021 Juniper Prize for Poetry.  

Gnall is poet-in-residence at 91传媒 and is teaching creative writing and poetry this academic year. This event is sponsored by the Department of English and the College of Liberal Arts & Education at 91传媒. Gnall is also the author of Heart First into the Forest. 

On Thursday, Oct. 27, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess will read at 7 p.m. in an event co-sponsored by the Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts & Education, the African American Studies Program and the Black Abolitionist Archive. He will read on 91传媒’s McNichols campus in the Chemistry Building, Room 114. 

Jess, a Detroit native, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his book Olio. In 2004, his book Leadbelly was a winner of the National Poetry Series. 

“Stacy and Tyehimba are important voices in contemporary poetry, and 91传媒 is thrilled to be able to present them to the community,” said Mary-Catherine Harrison, associate professor and chair of the Department of English. 

Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit .