Upcoming Events
Professional Writers Series: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Date and Time
Thursday Mar 23, 2017
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
7 p.m. March 23
Location
Multimedia Classroom Building, Room 6 WSU Vancouver
Fees/Admission
Free and open to all.
Website
https://events.vancouver.wsu.edu/professional-writers-series-kathy-jetnil-kijiner-activist-poetry
Contact Information
For more information, contact Howard Aaron at 503-816-2742.
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Description
Jetnil-Kijiner is a poet and performance artist whose work centers around climate activism. In 2014, Vogue magazine named her one of 13 leading women fighting global warming. Her poetry focuses on raising awareness of issues and threats—such as rising sea levels and forced migration—faced by the people of the Marshall Islands, where she was born. She also creates videos. WSU Vancouver’s annual Professional Writers Series will feature eight writers on six Thursday nights between Jan. 26 and April 6. The writers represent a variety of literary genres and styles, from short stories and memoirs to podcasts, biography and poetry. The presentations are free and open to the public.