Tuesday, May 7, 7pm, Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., Ste. 130

Urban Arts Space is honored to join with The Ohio State University Department of English and Costura Creative to present From the Language of Ash, a free reading series organized by poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib.

The latest edition features a reading from Tyree Daye. Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of two poetry collections [River Hymns, 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, and Cardinal, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020]. Daye is a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist and Cave Canem fellow. Daye’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, New York Times, and Nashville Review. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and is a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist. Daye most recently was awarded a 2019 Whiting Award.

To open the night, there will be readings from members of the Coalition to free Masonique Saunders.

This event is free and open to the public.

Hosted by OSU Urban Arts Space.