Open mic will be followed by a brief intermission before AU Professor Kyle Dargan takes the stage. Dargan is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Logorrhea Dementia. His debut, The Listening, won the 2003 Cave Canem Prize, and his second, Bouquet of Hungers, was awarded the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in poetry.
Dargan's poems and non-fiction have appeared in publications such as Callaloo, Denver Quarterly, Jubilat, The Newark Star-Ledger, Ploughshares, TheRoot.com, and Shenandoah. While a Yusef Komunyakaa fellow at Indiana University, he served as poetry editor for Indiana Review.