Admission is free.
At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, Codrescu will present an evening of poetry reading at the Bloomington Public Library along with Illinois State English faculty members and authors Curt White and Ricardo Cortez Cruz. Thursday, Codrescu will present a discussion of American poetry in room 218 of the Art Building at Illinois Wesleyan University. Codrescu is described by some as a surrealist and by others as a delightfully subversive influence in American culture.