RIT Hosts Open Poetry Reading on Dec. 4

Calling all poets! An open poetry “slam” will be held at Rochester Institute of Technology at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4. The reading will be held at Java Wally’s, the café in the RIT Library.

The event is sponsored by Signatures Art & Literary Magazine, an annual publication of student poetry, prose, graphic art, animation, music and video supported by RIT’s College of Liberal Arts.

Representatives from Signatures will award prizes at the poetry slam. Portions of the event will be videotaped and later included on the multimedia CD distributed with Signatures Magazine in the spring.

For more information about the poetry reading, contact John Roche at jroche@firstclass.rit.edu.

Internationally recognized as a leader in computing, imaging, technology, fine and applied arts, and education of the deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology enrolls 15,500 students in more than 340 undergraduate and graduate programs. Its cooperative education program is one of the oldest and largest in the nation.

For the past decade, U.S. News and World Report has ranked RIT as one of the nation’s leading comprehensive universities. RIT is also included in The Fiske Guide to Colleges, as well as Barron’s Best Buys in Education.