ALTOONA, Pa. — At 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 14, Romeo Oriogun, the featured author of the 2022 African American Read-In, will give a webinar poetry reading. Attendees can watch from the Titelman Study or elsewhere via Zoom. Pre-registration for virtual attendance is required.

Oriogun is the author of "Sacrament of Bodies," a finalist for the Lambda Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in "The New Yorker," "Poetry," "Harvard Review," "American Poetry Review," and others. He is the winner of the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he won the John Logan Prize for Poetry. He currently lives in Ames, Iowa, where he is a postdoctoral research associate at Iowa State University.

The theme for this year's Read-in is "The Other African Americans: African Immigrants Writing America," celebrating works by writers who are Black, African, and American. Their stories highlight the connections we share in this multiethnic country despite the differences in how and when our ancestors first arrived.

All Read-in events are free and open to the public and sponsored by the African American Read-in at Penn State Altoona with additional support from the Blair County NAACP.