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Auburn University Foundation

2018 Literary Arts Touring Grant Recipient

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Recipient Information

Location

Auburn, Alabama

Year of Award

2018

Grant or Fellowship

Literary Arts Touring Grants

Grant Amount

$2,050

Naomi Shihab Nye will present a poetry reading at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Additionally she will introduce the winner of the Southern Humanities Review's Jake Adam York Witness Prize, a national poetry contest for which Nye is the judge, and engage a multi-generational group of poetry students in a focused conversation about the tradition of poetry of witness. She will remain for a reception. Her reading is part of a monthly poetry series at JCSM.