A panel of poets and literary scholars from Kansas University and other universities around the county held a discussion on the future of poetry, Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at KU’s Spooner Hall, as part of KU’s Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement program (blackpoetry.ku.edu)

photo by: Richard Gwin

Frank X Walker, from the University of Kentucky, speaks to the attendees of a panel discussion on the future of poetry Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at Kansas University's Spooner Hall. The discussion was part of KU's Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement program, which is also organizing two poetry readings by African-American poets this month: William J. Harris and Evie Shockley will perform a reading at the Eighth Street Taproom on Sunday at 5 p.m., and The Raven Bookstore will host Harryette Mullen and Meta DuEwa Jones on July 30 from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information on the events, visit blackpoetry.ku.edu.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Lauri Ramey, from California State University, speaks to the attendees of a panel discussion on the future of poetry Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at Kansas University's Spooner Hall. The discussion was part of KU's Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement program, which is also organizing two poetry readings by African-American poets this month: William J. Harris and Evie Shockley will perform a reading at the Eighth Street Taproom on Sunday at 5 p.m., and The Raven Bookstore will host Harryette Mullen and Meta DuEwa Jones on July 30 from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information on the events, visit blackpoetry.ku.edu.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Megan Kaminski, a faculty member in the Kansas University English department, speaks to the attendees of a panel discussion on the future of poetry Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at KU's Spooner Hall. The discussion was part of KU's Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement program, which is also organizing two poetry readings by African-American poets this month: William J. Harris and Evie Shockley will perform a reading at the Eighth Street Taproom on Sunday at 5 p.m., and The Raven Bookstore will host Harryette Mullen and Meta DuEwa Jones on July 30 from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information on the events, visit blackpoetry.ku.edu.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Stephanie Fitzgerald, a faculty member in the Kansas University English department, speaks to the attendees of a panel discussion on the future of poetry Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at KU's Spooner Hall. The discussion was part of KU's Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement program, which is also organizing two poetry readings by African-American poets this month: William J. Harris and Evie Shockley will perform a reading at the Eighth Street Taproom on Sunday at 5 p.m., and The Raven Bookstore will host Harryette Mullen and Meta DuEwa Jones on July 30 from 7 to 9 p.m. For more information on the events, visit blackpoetry.ku.edu.