Please join the Converse BFA Creative and Professional Writing program on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, at 8:00 PM in Zimmerli Common Room, Howard Hall, as we host Gary Jackson, poet and director of the African-American Poetry Center at the University of Pittsburgh, for a reading from his newest work.
Gary Jackson is the author of the award-winning poetry collections, small lives, (University of New Mexico Press, 2025) origin story (University of New Mexico Press, 2021), both part of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, and Missing You, Metropolis (Graywolf, 2010), which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He’s also co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. He is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of English in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
The reading is free and open to the public. For additional information, contact Prof. Rick Mulkey at rick.mulkey@converse.edu
