See all Grant & Fellowship Recipients
Auburn University Foundation
2018 Literary Arts Touring Grant Recipient
![South Arts logo](/sites/default/files/styles/recipient_large/public/Logos%20%26%20Graphics%20for%20recipients/South_Arts_logo-primary%20-%20square-01.png.webp?itok=m8vtWmKS)
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.