Wednesday

October 22nd, 2025

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316

Free and open to the public

Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation. In Open Contempt is his first book.

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