App State’s Common Reading Program announces its 2022–23 book selection for incoming students: “Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community.”
The School of the Environment will host a free, public presentation, “Environmental Justice in Rural America,” by leading environmental justice activist Catherine Coleman Flowers at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 16.
On Feb. 9, Pulitzer-prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz will be giving a virtual poetry reading and lecture for the first Visiting Writers Series event of 2022. WSU’s Department of English and the Common Reading Program are partnering together to host the event. Cameron McGill, Visiting Writers Series co-director, said for several decades, the program has brought in.
Diaz’s poem, “American Arithmetic,” is featured in this year’s common reading book, Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation. The book is used in dozens of first-year classes.