Wednesday, April 27
Joni Tevis, guest reading
Johnston Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Formerly a park ranger, factory worker, and seller of cemetery plots, Tevis is the author of two books of essays, “The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory,” and “The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse,” both published by Milkweed Editions. Her essays have appeared in Orion, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, the Pushcart Prize anthology and elsewhere. She serves as the Bennette E. Geer Professor of Literature at Furman University. In conjunction with CELEBRATE! Week, Tevis will announce the winners of this year’s nonfiction contest.