Location: Kirby Hall Salon Brionne Janae is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn with their two dogs. They are the author of Because You Were Mine (2023) which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave…
Amor Towles, bestselling author, will deliver the annual Wilkes University Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the newly-renovated Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 South River St., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Towles’s award-winning novels have collectively sold more than…
Location: Sordoni Art Gallery Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was raised in Spring Valley, New York, and now lives in the Bronx. His debut collection, Friday Black, was a New York Times bestseller, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and was a finalist for the…
Location: Kirby Hall Salon Lauren Klein is Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and English at Emory University, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab and the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Her research brings together computational and critical methods to explore questions of gender, race, and justice, both in early America and…