CANCELLED: Spring Poetry Festival: An Evening with Brian G. Gilmore

Wed, April 1, 2020 6:00 PM at RCAH Theater, 362 Bogue Street, East Lansing, MI

Due to Michigan State University's move to online classes, our Spring Poetry Festival is being postponed.

On March 11, MSU announced that in-person classes are suspended and are moving to virtual instruction until April 20. The full announcement may be viewed here.

We are working with our scheduled visiting poets to reschedule their appearances here in most cases to Fall 2020, and will update our events calendar as these are confirmed.

Thank you for your patience as we work through this. Stay safe, friends!

Brian G. Gilmore will open our Spring Poetry Festival! Join us for a reading in the RCAH Theater, with a reception and book signing to follow in the LookOut Gallery.

Brian G. Gilmore, born and raised in Washington, D.C., is author of three previous collections of poetry, including We Didn't Know Any Gangsters, a 2014 NAACP Image Award nominee and 2015 Hurston-Wright Award nominee. He is a recipient of the 2001 and 2003 Individual Artist Award from the MidAtlantic Arts Council and was nominated in 1997 for the Larry Neal Writers Award. His writings have most recently appeared in Counterpunch, The Sun Magazine, Sojourners, and The New York Times. He is on the board of the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop, in Washington, D.C. He teaches social justice law at Michigan State University.