Author and editor Michelle Nijhuis will give a lecture at 6 p.m. on March 30 in the Honors College lounge about her new book on the conservation movement. Nijhuis said she was invited to speak at WSU by English professor Peter Chilson. Her lecture will be a part of WSU’s Visiting Writers Series, as well.
On Feb. 9, Pulitzer-prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz will be giving a virtual poetry reading and lecture for the first Visiting Writers Series event of 2022. WSU’s Department of English and the Common Reading Program are partnering together to host the event. Cameron McGill, Visiting Writers Series co-director, said for several decades, the program has brought in.