Speakers and Lectures

A reading of local poet Heather Derr-Smith's to celebrate the recent publication of _The Bride Minaret_. "Derr-Smith explores the complex and difficult realities of our global world...paying close attention to those displaced from the society around them--Arabs in Europe, Americans in the Middle East, Mennonites in Iowa, and, at the heart of the book, a mother now separated from her former, childless self--these poems ultimately argue that dislocation is itself a kind of location." Wayne Miller