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The 11th Annual Alumni Poetry Reading

October 21, 2026
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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501 Dodge Hall

Please join us for our Alumni Poetry Reading series, featuring Mansi Dahal '24, Adam O. Davis '06, Mina Khan '22, and Avia Tadmor '18.

Mansi Dahal is a writer from Nepal and the author of Women in Marigold, published this fall by Stillhouse Press. Her writing has been featured in Poetry, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. Poets & Writers selected her as one of their poetry fellows for the 2026 “Get the Word Out” publicity incubator program.

Adam O. Davis is the author of Pyrrhic Symphony (University of Nebraska Press, 2026), winner of the Raz/Shumaker Book Prize, and Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. The recipient of awards from Poetry International and Poetry Society of America, his work has appeared in AGNI, The Believer, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in San Diego where he teaches English literature at The Bishop’s School.

Mina Khan is a Korean-Pakistani American from NYC. She is the author of MON-monuments, monarchs & monsters (Sputnik & Fizzle, 2020) and Night Shift in Perfect English published by Gasher Press earlier this year. A Tin House alum, her work has appeared in AAWW’s The Margins, Tupelo Quarterly, Epiphany Magazine, and elsewhere.

Avia Tadmor is the author of Song in Tammuz, winner of the International Berkshire Prize (Tupelo Press, 2026). Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The New Republic, New England Review, Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. She has received support from Yaddo, Bread Loaf, Poets & Writers, and a Gregory Djanikian Scholarship from The Adroit Journal. She teaches at NYU.

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