Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

Writers in Conversation: Reawakening Narratives Through Hybridity and Archivist ChroniclingJulietta Singh and Courtney Faye Taylor, moderated by Felicia ZamoraApril 24, 7pm on ZOOMPoet Julietta Singh and gender scholar Courtney Faye Taylor join West Branch contributing editor Felicia Zamora to discuss their recent work in hybridity and archives. Felicia Zamora is the author of seven poetry collections including Interstitial Archaeology from the Wisconsin Poetry Series (2025), I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize (2021) and the 2022 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. She is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and poetry editor for Colorado Review. Julietta Singh is Stephanie Bennett-Smith Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond. An academic and nonfiction writer, her work is rooted in postcolonial feminisms and the ecological humanities. Courtney Faye Taylor is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and other honors.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.