Poetry, Writing, Trauma & Healing

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Poetry, Writing, Trauma & Healing

A Conversation with Joseph Bathanti

Join us for a discussion with novelist, memoirist and former poet laureate of North Carolina, Professor Joseph Bathanti in a conversation led by Duke University Professor Raymond Barfield. They’ll explore the intertwining of writing with human experiences of suffering, joy, trauma, and healing. In addition to his award-winning writing, Professor Bathanti has followed a call to service by teaching writing and literature to correctional facility inmates and, more recently, conducting writing workshops with military veterans. In September 2016, he was awarded the North Carolina Award for Literature.

Free and open to the public. Light lunch served.

Learn more about Joseph Bathanti:

Interview with Featured Poet: Joseph Bathanti. Town Creek Poetry (Spring 2011)

Joseph Bathanti: Writing as a Sacred Office. Faith & Leadership (October 22, 2012)

They Are Everywhere. Our State (November 3, 2013)

Writings From Wartime Help Healing. Citizen-Times (February 26, 2016)

Read selections of his writing in The Sun Magazine

Also – on Monday, March 7, Joseph Bathanti will be at The Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth Street, Durham, reading from his most recent book of poems, The 13th Sunday After Pentecost. The reading begins at 7 pm.