Marcus Wicker is the author of three books of poetry: Dear Mothership, Silencer, and Maybe the Saddest Thing, selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry Series. His honors include a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Wicker’s poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Oxford American, and POETRY.

The Third Thursday Literary Series is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University; and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Refreshments will be available at 6 PM; the reading will begin at 6:30 PM. Book sales are provided by Auburn Oil Co. Booksellers.