Rivers have been widely regarded as the sustenance of life, forever renewing the fertility of land. Rivers are also more than a source of water. They are the start of cities and countries that bring people together. A river is thus a metaphor for all-embracing, merging of cultures from around the world. Gregory Wilson knows the power of rivers. He is the author of Dead Portraits in a Living Room, a collection of poems exploring the intersection of diverse cultures using a river and meeting of rivers as a metaphor. As part of its Caribbean Writer series: Dialogues on identity, Immigration, and Art, the University of Puget Sound hosts the poet and educator who grew up in Jamaica and graduated from The University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, for a discussion, exploring cultural unity in the Caribbean and central America. He has taught writing and literature to hundreds of children throughout Jamaica and the Bahamas and has performed his work internationally.

GREGORY WILSON, 5:30-7 p.m., Rasmussen Rotunda, Wheelock Student Center, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner, Tacoma, free admission, 253/879.3100

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