Mullen will continue at HU with a poetry reading in the auditorium of the Science and Technology Building at 7 p.m. on Feb. 15.
All events are free and open to the public.
She has worked in the Poets in the School Program in Texas and taught creative writing at Cornell University. She specializes in African American and other U.S. ethnic literatures as well as writings of the Diaspora. The University will welcome Ishmael Reed and Nathaniel Mackey later this spring semester. The Series, funded by a grant from the Lannan Foundation and First Christian Church in Norfolk, will offer the Hampton Roads community an opportunity to experience diverse types of poetry and writing. The program will promote creative writing at Hampton University by giving students, and especially student writers, the opportunity for close extended contact with the artists.