Indiana poet laureate Adrian Matejka, an Indiana University instructor, will speak and read from his works at a fundraiser.
The event 7 p.m. Thursday event at Hotel Indigo, 400 Brown St., will raise money for The Granny Connection, a local nonprofit organization providing support, advocacy, and funding to grandmothers in Africa who are raising children orphaned by AIDS. It also will support the African American Fund, part of The Heritage Fund — the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County.
The event is limited to 60 people, according to organizers. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students.
Matejka is a graduate of Indiana University and the Master’s of Fine Arts program at Southern Illinois University. He is the author of “Mixology,” a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. The work was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature.
His third collection, “The Big Smoke” (Penguin, 2013) focuses on Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion. The book was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was also a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
Information and tickets: grannyconnection.org.
