Accomplished Poet is Next Visiting Writer in LRU Series

The Lenoir-Rhyne University Visiting Writers Series continues on Thursday, February 24, with An Evening with Kevin Young. Young will speak at 7:00 pm in the Belk Centrum on campus. Young will be joined on-stage by nationally recognized jazz and experimental musicians.

Young will be joined on stage by a trio of musicians that will perform a series of improvisations for electronic and acoustic wind instruments, drums and keyboard. The musicians include L-R faculty Dr. John Cheek and Professor Rick Cline. Flutist, multi-instrumentalist David Wechsler, will join them.

The Lenoir-Rhyne University Visiting Writers Series is free to the public thanks to the support of sponsors. This year’s sponsors include Our State, Catawba Valley Community Foundation, Hickory Public Library, United Arts Council of Catawba County, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Crowne Plaza hotel of Hickory, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home, and WFAE 90.7 FM, Your NPR News Source.

For more information about the Visiting Writers Series at Lenoir-Rhyne University, go to http://visitingwriters.lr.edu or call 828-328-7077