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Published and student poets featured at April 4 ONU English reading series

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The ONU English Reading Series will welcome poet and professor Kristin LaFollette to campus for its spring presentation at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4.

She will read alongside creative writing student Dakari Ward in the Elzay Gallery of Art, 503 S Gilbert St. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing.

This event is co-sponsored with the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Free and open to the public, this reading is supported with a generous gift from Phil Oleson, BSPh '66, and Mary (Montswil) Oleson, BSPh '70.

LaFollette is a writer, artist, and scholar from the Midwest. She is the author of Hematology. winner of the 2021 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize, and Body Parts, winner of the 2017 GFT Press Chapbook Prize.

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She serves as a medical humanities specialist on the advisory board at The Blood Project, an educational platform out of Harvard Medical School that works toward building bridges between science, medicine and the humanities. 

LaFollette received a Ph.D. in rhetoric and writing studies from Bowling Green State University and is a professor at the University of Southern Indiana.