Joseph Drew Lanham

Workshop: begins at 2:00 PM

Reading: begins at 4:00 PM

Openers: Claire Bateman and Mandy Blankenship

Reader: Joseph Drew Lanham

All events are free and open to the public, with RSVP appreciated. Writers of all levels are welcome to attend the workshop, the reading, or both. The reading is open to all poetry lovers.

Joseph Drew Lanham is an American author, poet, and wildlife biologist who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022 for his work "combining conservation science with personal, historical, and cultural narratives of nature.” He currently teaches several classes on birding and wildlife science. He describes his work in his own words as, ‘Connecting the conservation dots’ is how I envision my research mission. My past work has focused on the impacts of forest management and other human activities on songbirds, herpetofauna, small mammals and butterflies. More recently I have begun to investigate how ethnicity (especially Black…