Swenson Visiting Writer: Gion Davis

Join us for a poetry workshop and reading from Swenson Visiting Writer Gion Davis on Thursday, March 19, 2026. The workshop will take place at 10:30 a.m., and the poetry reading will begin at 12:00 p.m. Both events will take place in Merrill Cazier Library 101. 

Gion will be reading from his new book Designated Stranger, which poet Diane Suess calls an "of-the-moment but timeless Beat-style masterwork. The brilliance of these poems,” she writes, "is inseparable from their bravado and bravery, their eye for the truth and their eye for the truth of glorious details.” 

Gion works as a poet and musician and will focus his workshop on the relationship between performance and poetry. There will be a Q&A and book signing after each of the events.