Intended Audience
Thursday, April 17: Poet Kyle Dargan (7:30 p.m., Daugherty-Palmer Commons)
Introduced by Professor Jeff Coleman
Kyle Dargan is the author of six collections of poetry, which have been awarded the Cave Canem Prize, the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize, and longlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. He has partnered with the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and support the development of the National Student Poets Program. He is head of the books division for Janelle Monae’s creative company, Wondaland, and an Associate Professor of Creative Communications at American University in Washington, D.C. More about his writing and cultural work can be found at www.kyledargan.com.