Last Event of 2024-25 Final Thursday Reading Series on April
“I believe all of us need to contribute to changing the world and engaging in dialogue with the tools we have and in the arenas we operate, and poetry happens to be mine,” says Bao Phi, the featured reader at the Final Thursday Reading Series on April 27.
Phi is the author of the poetry collection Thousand Star Hotel (Coffee House Press) and the Caldecott award-winning children’s book A Different Pond. He is also a performance poet who is a two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist.
The Final Thursday Reading Series takes place at the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls, Iowa. There will be an open mic at 7:00 p.m. (bring your best five minutes of original creative writing). Bao Phi takes the stage at 7:30. The featured reading will also be simulcast on Zoom. Register for a Zoom link at https://uni.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUucuusqDMpHdSEL9oClLggSW0UKsUQfAC9.The Final
Thursday Reading Series returns in August for its 25th season!
The Final Thursday Reading Series is a collaboration of Final Thursday Press; the Hearst Center for the Arts; the University of Northern Iowa College of Humanities, Arts, & Sciences; and the UNI Department of Languages & Literatures.