Poetry Reading with Mildred Barya
Venue: Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg
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Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Blacksburg Books presents a Poetry Reading with Mildred Barya on Thursday, October 16, 2025.
Join us in welcoming Mildred Kiconco Barya, a North Carolina-based writer and poet of East African descent, for a reading from her newly released book of poetry, "Hands in Clay".
Mildred Kiconco Bary also teaches and lectures globally. "Hands in Clay" is her fifth full-length poetry collection. Her previous poetry books include The Animals of My Earth School (Terrapin Books), which was listed among Brittle Paper Notable African Books of 2023 and received honorable mention in the 2024 Eric Hoffer Poetry Award. Barya is the recipient of the 2025 Jacobs/Jones African American Literary Prize and the 2020 Linda Flowers Literary Award. She has served as the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for the North Carolina Poetry Society and her work is published in the New England Review, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Tin House, The Forge, and elsewhere.
Blacksburg Books is located at 401 South Main Street, Suite 106 in Blacksburg, VA.
For more information, visit: https://www.blacksburgbooks.com/events/poetry-reading-with-mildred-kiconco-barya or https://www.facebook.com/Blacksburg.Books or https://www.instagram.com/blacksburg_books/ or call 540-315-9650 or email info@blacksburgbooks.com with questions.
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