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Poets’ Corner Reading Series presents Celeste Doaks reading poetry by her favorite poets.

Free-will offering.

Poet and journalist Celeste Doaks is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields (Wrecking Ball Press, UK), and most recently the editor of Not Without Our Laughter (Mason Jar Press). Cornrows was listed as one of the “Ten Best Books of 2015” by Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her accolades include a Lucille Clifton Scholarship to attend Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, the 2010 AWP WC&C Scholarship. Her journalism has appeared in the Huffington Post, Village Voice, Time Out New York, and QBR (Quarterly Black Book Review). Her poems have been published in multiple on-line and print publications such as Chicago Quarterly Review, the Rumpus.net, and the City Paper. Doaks is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at University of Delaware. For more, visit her on Twitter and Instagram @thedoaksgirl or at www.doaksgirl.com

Co-sponsored by St. Thomas's Parish and the University of Delaware Department of English.