Poetry, Writing, Trauma, & Healing

Join us for a discussion with novelist, memoirist and former poet laureate of North Carolina, Professor Joseph Bathanti in a conversation led by Duke University Professor Raymond Barfield. They'll explore the intertwining of writing with human experiences of suffering, joy, trauma, and healing. In addition to his award-winning writing, Professor Bathanti has followed a call to service by teaching writing and literature to correctional facility inmates and, more recently, conducting writing workshops with military veterans. In September 2016, he was awarded the North Carolina Award for Literature. Free and open to the public. Lunch provided beginning at 11:45 a.m.