47th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 6-11, 2024
Remica Bingham-Risher: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Presentation
Festival Date
10-7-2024
Location
University Theatre, Old Dominion University
Author/Artist Bio
Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, 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 Legacy Award; and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017), winner of the Diode Editions Book Award and finalist for the Library of Virginia Book Award. Her memoir, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions That Grew Me Up, was published by Beacon Press (2022). Her newest book, Room Swept Home, is a work of poems, historical and family photographs (Wesleyan University Press, 2024). She is the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, where she resides with her husband and children.
Description
The reading took place on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, at 2 p.m. in the University Theatre at Old Dominion University. Bingham-Risher’s reading was followed by Christal Brown.
Recommended Citation
Bingham-Risher, Remica, "Remica Bingham-Risher: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2024). 47th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 6-11, 2024. 16.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2024/16
