Visiting Writers Series: Arisa White

Award-winning poet and Cave Canem fellow Arisa White will read from her work as a guest of the WSU Visiting Writers Series. The series is a systemwide offering of creative readings, class visits, workshops and collaborative exchanges across intellectual and artistic disciplines.
White is the recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Award and the Per Diem Poetry Prize and has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a Lambda Literary Award. She is co-author of "Biddy Mason Speaks Up," the second book in the Fighting for Justice Series for young readers. The in-person reading will also be livestreamed via the VWS YouTube channel. As the founder of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa White curates poetic collaborations that are rooted in Black queer women’s ways of knowing. Her most recent book is the poetic memoir "Who’s Your Daddy."
For more information on the series, including YouTube links to our upcoming readings, visit english.wsu.edu/visiting-writers.