BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hollins University - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hollins University X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hollins University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T085846 CREATED:20250922T151705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T151705Z UID:71684-1770924600-1770928200@www.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu SUMMARY:Reading Series: Remica Bingham-Risher DESCRIPTION:Reading: Thursday\, February 12\, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room\, Main Building\n\nRemica Bingham-Risher\, a native of Phoenix\, Arizona\, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals\, her work has been published in The New York Times\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, New Letters\, Callaloo\, and Essence. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus\, 2006)\, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award; What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan\, 2013)\, shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award; and Starlight & Error (Diode\, 2017)\, winner of the Diode Editions Book Award. Her first book of prose\, Soul Culture: Black Poets\, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up\, was published by Beacon Press in 2022. Her book of poems along with family and historical photographs\, Room Swept Home\, published by Wesleyan in February 2024\, won the Los Angeles Book Prize. She is currently the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk\, VA with her husband and children.\n\nSponsored by: The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Jackson Poetry Fund URL:/event/reading-series-remica-bingham-risher/ LOCATION:Green Drawing Room\, Main CATEGORIES:English and Creative Writing,Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Remica-Bingham-Risher-1-High-Res.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Willard Ramsey":MAILTO:ramseywz1@ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T085846 CREATED:20250922T152011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T152101Z UID:71686-1772134200-1772137800@www.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu SUMMARY:Reading Series: drea brown DESCRIPTION:Reading: Thursday\, February 26\, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room\, Main Building \n\ndrea brown is a Hollins alumna\, queer Black feminist poet-scholar whose writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Stand Our Ground: Poems for Marissa Alexander and Trayvon Martin\, Smithsonian Magazine\, Southern Indiana Review\, Bellingham Review\, and About Place Journal. drea is the author of dear girl: a reckoning\, winner of the Gold Line Press 2014 chapbook prize\, and co-editor of Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2021). Their newly released monograph Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women (University Press of Mississippi\, 2025)\, explores the role of haunting in Black women’s literature and lived experiences. \n\nSponsored by: The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund URL:/event/reading-series-drea-brown/ LOCATION:Green Drawing Room\, Main CATEGORIES:English and Creative Writing,Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/db.headshot18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Willard Ramsey":MAILTO:ramseywz1@ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR