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Take Back The Night

Take Back The Night is an impactful evening dedicated to ending sexual violence and is open to the community. This event features a keynote speaker, a powerful survivor performance, a campus-wide march, and a survivor speak-out. Refreshments will be provided. The first 50 attendees will receive a free T-shirt. Signs and candles will be available for the march. Take Back the Night’s mission is to raise awareness and support survivors of sexual assault, abuse, trafficking, stalking, gender harassment, and relationship violence.

Holi

South Asian Student Association invites UTulsa students and employees to a Holi festival. Holi is the festival of colors widely celebrated in Hinduism as a coming of spring. This event will include the throwing of colors, snacks, games, and other activities on Dietler Commons.

Poetry Reading with Kaveh Bassiri

Adjunct professor of creative writing at UTulsa, a former Tulsa Artist Fellow and author of two award-winning chapbooks, Kaveh Bassiri will do a poetry reading. All are welcome.

Poetry Reading with Juliana Spahr

Juliana Spahr is a poet whose interest involve transformation language, and ecology. She won the 2009 O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize.

Graphic Novel Reading and Book Launch by Carl Antonowicz (with Q&A with Grant Jenkins)

Carl Antonowicz is an adjunct professor at The University of Tulsa and a former Tulsa Artist Fellow. His new book, “The Ardent,” is a tale of medieval woe with jokes, released in 2025 through Fieldmouse Press. The accompanying reading is a live performance of the first third of the book with voice acting and Foley effects created live onstage by Antonowicz himself. A Q&A with Professor Grant Jenkins will follow, along with book sales and signings.

Jonathan Skinner Poetry Reading

Jonathan Skinner teaches ecocriticism and creative writing at the University of Warwick founder of the seminal journal, ecopoetics; The Archive is a chapbook published by UK micropress Gong Farm.