The San Juan College School of Humanities will host poet Orlando White as the first in a new poetry series with a reading at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 10, in the College library.

White holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a master of fine arts from Brown University. His poems have appeared in Bombay Gin, The Kenyon Review, Salt Hill Journal, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Talking Stick Native Arts Quarterly and elsewhere. Bone Light (Red Hen Press, 2009) is his first book.

White is from Tólikan, Arizona. He is Diné (Navajo) of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí (Zuni Water’s Edge Clan) and born for the Naakai Diné’e (Mexican Clan). He teaches at Diné College and currently lives in Tsaile, Ariz.

The library will host a reception for White at 5 p.m., before his reading.
Both the reception and reading are free and open to the public.
For information, contact Kimberly Williams at 505-566-3442.