Visiting Writer Aaron Coleman Reading

Visiting Writer Aaron Coleman is a poet, translator, educator, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Coleman is the author of Red Wilderness and the translator of Nicolás Guillén’s The Great Zoo, shortlisted for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize. Coleman’s other poetry collections include Threat Come Close, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award, and St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the ButtonPoetry Prize.

Books available for purchase through Subterranean Books.

Reading followed by reception and book sale.