Date and Time

• Thursday, November 7, 2024 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Location

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Theatre

Cost

Free

Details

The second reading in the 2024-2025 Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series will feature USD’s very own poet Malachi Black on November 7, 2024 at 6 p.m., in the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre. The reading will be followed by a dessert reception and book signing. Event is free and open to the public. 

Malachi Black is the author of Indirect Light, forthcoming from Four Way Books in fall 2024, and Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Series (chosen by Ilya Kaminsky). A 2024-25 Fulbright fellow, Black is also the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Amy Clampitt House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Emory University, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Hawthornden Castle, MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation (a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship), the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Yaddo. Black is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of San Diego.

All are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact the Cropper Center for Creative Writing Director and Associate Professor Brad Melekian, at melekian@sandiego.edu.

Sponsored by University of San Diego’s Cropper Center for Creative Writing and the Department of English.

The Lindsay J. Cropper Center for Creative Writing was established at USD in 2004 with a generous gift from Barrie and Dorothy Cropper in memory of their daughter, Lindsay J. Cropper, an alumna of USD, an English major and aspiring writer, who died tragically in 2000. The purpose of the center is to foster the appreciation and practice of creative writing at the University of San Diego by hosting an annual Writers Series, sponsoring a literary journal, promoting the development of writing courses and granting awards for creative writing.