Reading Series: Remica Bingham-Risher

Reading: Thursday, February 12, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building

Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in The New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, New Letters, Callaloo, and Essence. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award; What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013), shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award; and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017), winner of the Diode Editions Book Award. Her first book of prose, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up, was published by Beacon Press in 2022. Her book of poems along with family and historical photographs, Room Swept Home, published by Wesleyan in February 2024, won the Los Angeles Book Prize. She is currently the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children.

Sponsored by: The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Jackson Poetry Fund