Poet and Memoirist Christine Lincoln delivers annual Bothe Poetry Reading

McDaniel College hosts the annual B. Christopher Bothe Memorial Lecture with poet and memoirist, Christine Lincoln. The event takes place during National Poetry Month on Tuesday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m., in Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall.

Christine Lincoln, who writes about the African American experience, was born and raised in Baltimore. She attended Washington College as a non-traditional student, graduating in 2000 and winning the college’s Sophie Kerr Prize, the largest undergraduate literary award in the country. She currently lives in York, Pennsylvania, where she is poet laureate emeritus.

The annual B. Christopher Bothe Memorial Lecture brings a distinguished visiting writer to McDaniel’s campus for one day to meet with student writers and to give a public reading and lecture. B. Christopher Bothe, a member of the class of 1972, was a poet, award-winning journalist, and printer who died in 1984. Bothe’s family and friends developed the lecture in his memory in 1987.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 410-857-2530.