Guest Writer Series @ SU: Dare Williams
Thu, Apr 09
|Alson H. Smith, Jr. Library
At Shenandoah University's Guest Writer Series!
Time & Location
Apr 09, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Alson H. Smith, Jr. Library, 1460 University Dr, Winchester, VA 22601, USA
About the Event
Join us at Shenandoah University's Alson H. Smith, Jr. Library for their Guest Writer Series where artist-in-residence, Dare Williams, will read from his catalog of electrifying poetry that blends intimacy, vulnerability, and cultural critique to explore love, loss, and liberation.
This event will open with short readings by Shenandoah University students and conclude with a Q&A with Dare.
Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season's events!
About the Artist
Dare Williams is a Queer HIV-positive poet, facilitator and literary worker rooted in Southern California. He has received support/fellowships for his work from Brooklyn Poets, Breadloaf, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded a California Arts Council Performance Grant, and a Peter Taylor Teaching Fellowship from The Kenyon Writers Workshop. His work has been featured in Kenyon Review, Foglifter, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He is an associate poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine and received his MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.