Reading for the End of the World
Reading for the End of the World
- Date:
- Thursday, April 30, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 9:00pm
- Location:
- Main Auditorium
- Location:
- Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St)
- Audience:
- Adult Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds Senior Citizen
- Categories:
- Author Visit Humanities Literacy Social Writing
The world seems to be ending on a daily basis.
Area poets are writing headlong into that. Come hear 20+ poets read their declarations, laments, testimony, diatribe, vespers, and everything else—all in one unforgettable night.
Reading For the End of the World Booklist
Thursday, April 30, 6:00-9:00 p.m., Free and Open to the Public
Registration preferred but not required.
Poets to include:
Organized by Durham Poet Laureate Chris Vitiello.
Chris Vitiello is a Durham-based writer, critic, performer, and poet. His most recent poetry books are Irresponsibility and Obedience (both Ahsahta Press). As the Poetry Fox, he writes custom poems on-demand on vintage typewriters at around 250 events a year. After winning the 2017 ArtPrize Pitch Night, he took his performance installation The Language Is Asleep to the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and has reprised the immersive work for Duke University’s StoryCon, Raleigh’s Block Gallery, the Greensboro Project Space, and Augusta, GA’s Westobou. His Writing Cabinet project—crossing the confessional with the fortune telling cabinet—consists of a giant armoire that returns poetic responses to your worries, memories, fears, hopes, and more. Vitiello also writes for newspapers and magazines about art and performance, and won the 2017 Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism. As a teacher, he has lectured and led poetry workshops in public/private K-12 schools, university MFA programs, corporate and arts settings, and prisons and elder care facilities. He also organizes community art events throughout the Triangle and has curated exhibitions at the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill and at The Carrack and The Fruit in Durham.
The laureate program is a part of the City of Durham Cultural & Public Art Program.
Hosted by Durham County Library
Where can I park when the Main Library parking lot is full?
Parking is available in the library parking lot or at the North Queen Street Garage located at 115 North Queen Street which is behind the apartments directly across the street from the library. Parking is free in the garage. Please bring your ticket to a service desk in the library for validation.
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