Detroit Mercy’s English Department will host poet Farnaz Fatemi as the third speaker of the Winter 2024 Triptych virtual author series Thursday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m.
Fatemi will give a reading of her work on Zoom followed by audience questions. The event is free and open to the public. Interested participants are asked to register beforehand.
Fatemi’s debut book, Sister Tongue (2022) won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and received a Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly. Formerly a writing instructor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and currently Santa Cruz County’s Poet Laureate.
Triptych events, hosted by Detroit Mercy’s poet-in-residence Stacy Gnall, are free and open to the community.
The English Department will host its Triptych+1 student reading on Thursday, April 18.
