National award-winner and member of the prestigious System of Art Creators of Mexico (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte), Mexican-born American Poet Manuel Iris will be holding conversation and performing a poetry reading on March 2. His visit to Ohio University will continue on March 3, including a class visit and a lunch to meet with students, faculty and community members. RSVP to the conversation and poetry reading with QR code.

Manuel Iris holds a BA in Latin American Literature from the Autonomous University of the 
Yucatan (Mexico), an MA in Spanish from the New Mexico State University, and a PhD in 
Romance Languages from the University of Cincinnati, the city in which he lives and 
where he served as poet laureate from 2018 to 2020. 

LAS warmly welcomes others to the lunch! Please RSVP to Dr. Joanna Mitchell (mitchej2@ohio.edu).