Palestinian-American poet and scholar Lisa Suhair Majaj will read from her poetry at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6, in the Barney-Davis Board Room (200 West Loop). Sponsored by the Beck Lecture Series, the Laura C. Harris Symposium, the Global Studies Seminar program and the International Studies program, the reading is free and open to the public.

Majaj was born in the United States and grew up in Amman, Jordan. Her poetry and essays are widely published. In 2007 she was awarded the Del Sol Press Annual Poetry Prize for her poetry manuscript “Geographies of Light.”

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CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville — Poetry reading by Lisa Suhair Majaj at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6, in the Barney-Davis Board Room (200 West Loop). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact 740-587-6297 or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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