5:30 p.m.  Reception | 6 p.m. Poetry Reading 

Join us for the release of the new book by award-winning poet and WSU professor Sam Taylor. The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse is an innovative, visually arresting book that blends genres and marries personal, confessional themes of loss surrounding a mother's early death, with global, ecological themes of loss to create a sweeping elegy for our earth and oceans. 

Writing Now/Reading Now is cosponsored by the WSU Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Watermark Books & Café, and the Ulrich Museum of Art.