OCTC's Main Campus
4800 New Hartford Rd
Blandford Lecture Hall in the Humanities
Owensboro, KY 42303
United States
EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. EVENT BEGINS AT 12:30PM ET.
Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) invites the community to participate in all related events for this fall’s upcoming Common Reading event. The book for Fall 2023 semester is Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón, United States Poet Laureate.
Limón is scheduled to visit Wednesday, October 18, 2023 for a keynote presentation, book reading, and book signing at 12:30 p.m. in Blandford Lecture Hall in the Humanities building on OCTC’s Main Campus; the event is open to the public.
The college reserves the option to adjust events. All events related to the Common Reading will be posted online at facebook.com/octccommonread and are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact kaye.brown@kctcs.edu.
Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate as well as the author of The Hurting Kind and five other collections of poems.
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is “disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.”
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