Westover School is pleased to host poet Vievee Francis for a virtual poetry reading on Friday, February 11, 2022, at 7:30 pm ET. This event is open to the public and will be hosted on Zoom. Please register online.

Poet Vievee Francis was born in West Texas and is the 2021 recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. She is the author of The Shared World (Northwestern University Press), Forest Primeval (Northwestern University Press), winner of the 2016 Hurston Wright Legacy Award, Horse In the Dark (Northwestern University Press), winner of Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, and Blue-tail Fly (Wayne State University Press). She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2009, the same year she received a Rona Jaffe Award. In addition, she has been awarded fellowships from the Kresge Foundation and Cave Canem. She serves as an associate editor of Callaloo and an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Westover School is an independent boarding and day high school that challenges smart, motivated girls to become confident, connected women. The mission of Westover School is to empower young women to lead lives of consequence. Westover challenges its young women to think independently, to embrace diversity, and to grow intellectually and spiritually. Westover is committed to providing a college preparatory education in a small community atmosphere that emphasizes student-adult interaction. Our faculty has been chosen not only for their scholarship but also because they are people who share several fundamental moral concerns: a belief in passing on to young women their own enthusiasm for learning and a compassion for others.