Leah Naomi Green to Hold Reading and Conversation on Language and Narrative The April 7 event is part of the Museums at W&L’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ series.

By Emily Innes
March 26, 2025

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Leah Naomi Green, visiting assistant professor of English and environmental studies at Washington and Lee University, will hold a public reading and conversation on April 7 at noon in the Watson Galleries.

The event, titled “Excluded From the Garden,” is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, and registration is required: https://tiny.cc/excluded-garden.

The event is part of the Museums at W&L’s “Lunch and Learn” series, which this year centers around the theme “Buried Stories, Hidden Lives” and invites poets, scholars and community members to consider whose voices and stories have shaped our dominant historical narratives, whose stories have been excluded, erased or hidden, and how we can render these stories more visible. The Museums will provide a lunch served at 11:30 a.m. before the reading.

Green will read from her current poetry manuscript, “After the Ending,” and place it in conversation with Emma Steinkraus’ “Impossible Garden/Dusk & Dawn.” The poems and discussion will explore and question the roles of language and narrative in relation to the greater-than-human world.

Green joined the W&L faculty in 2009. Her work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Treehouse Climate Action Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, the Guilford College Sherwood Anderson Visiting Writer Program, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award for compassion, courage, truth-telling and commitment to justice. She has been published in the Paris Review, Tin House, Poem-a-Day, the Kenyon Review, the Southern Review, Orion, Ecotone, and Pleiades, among other journals.

The Museums at W&L are open to the public Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. To learn more about the 2024-2025 exhibitions, visit the Museums at W&L’s website.