The Department of Literature, Journalism, Writing, and Languages presents the 26th Annual Poetry Day reading featuring guest poet Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.
Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. (she/her) is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is a Features Editor for The Rumpus, a Poetry Acquisitions Editor for Variant Literature, an Editorial Board Member for Beloit Poetry Journal, and an Editorial Advisor for Jackleg Press. She is the author of two chapbooks, her debut full-length, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, from Soft Skull Press, which won the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award and the 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry, and Resting Bitch Face, forthcoming in Fall of 2025. She is also a co-editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol X: Alabama from Texas Review Press, and of Poemhood: Our Black Revival, a YA anthology on Black folklore from HarperCollins.
Join Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. for a featured poetry reading on Wednesday, September 25 at 7 p.m. at Fermanian Conference Center. Cost is free, and all are welcome to attend. Book sales and signing to follow the reading courtesy of La Playa Books. Please reserve free tickets at the button below.