Poetic Justice

The Miller Library hosted “Poetic Justice,” a poetry reading on Wednesday, November 4th, 2020, to showcase work that exemplifies the student readers’ definitions of justice. Describing the conception of the event, Miller Library’s Alex Baker said, “There’s so much pain and trauma but there’s also so much joy, and all of those things have kind of been ruminating for me. This event was really birthed out of those emotions and not suppressing those.” The first student reader, Joshua Torrence ‘24, read Eduardo C. Corral’s “To a Straight Man.” Raven Bishop read an original titled “Our Lady Colossus.” Student, Jana Lewis ‘23, read “A Letter to Your Flag by Ronald Vinson, and was followed by Kat DeSantis with her original “Speaking Truth to Power. The reading closed out with senior Justin Nash reading Kyle Carrero Lopez’s “After Abolition,” Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s “I Dream of Horses Eating Cops,” and Steve Cafidi’s “For the Last American Buffalo.” The event was well-timed during election week, and gave students a platform to discuss the work they admire and what justice means to them.