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Rickey Laurentiis and Terrance Hayes

Presented by Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh at Heinz Memorial Chapel, Pittsburgh PA

Jan 24 2019
Rickey Laurentiis and Terrance Hayes

Join award-winning poets Rickey Laurentiis and Terrance Hayes for a reading and conversation.

Rickey Laurentiis was raised in New Orleans to love the dark. They are the author of Boy with Thorn, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the  Levis Reading Prize. Other honors include fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Lannan Literary Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation. Laurentiis is the inaugural Fellow in Creative Writing at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of ... view more »

ADMISSION INFO

Free admission.

INDIVIDUAL DATES & TIMES*

Additional time info:

A book signing will follow the reading.

* Event durations (if noted) are approximate. Please check with the presenting organization or venue to confirm start times and duration.

LOCATION

Heinz Memorial Chapel

326 S. Bellefield Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213