GCSU's Creative Writing Program Visiting Writers Series Book Launch: Nine Persimmons - A reading with Kerry James Evans

The Creative Writing Program and the Department of English invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of Nine Persimmons, the new poetry collection by Kerry James Evans, published by The Backwaters/University of Nebraska Press.

“Nine Persimmons is a major victory.”
—Rodney Jones, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and author of Salvation Blues and Elegy for the Southern Drawl

“These poems are haunted, full of grit, and down-home.”
—Tomas Morín, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Machete and Patient Zero

“Here in rural Georgia is the heaven of Paradisio.”
—Alice Friman, Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductee and author of On the Overnight Train and The View from Saturn

Please join us for an evening of poetry and community as we gather to mark the release of this new work. A book signing and light refreshments will follow the reading.

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
Pat Peterson Museum Education Room
221 N. Clarke Street
Milledgeville, GA 31061