FALL 2024

Ramya Ramana
October 22
4:30pm - philips autograph library

"Care for the World through Poems"
A reading by Ramya Ramana

The WCU Poetry Center is pleased to partner with the Office of Sustainability and welcome Ramya Ramana to campus on October 22, 2024 for a very special reading. This event is free and open to the public.

Ramya Ramana is an award-winning American author, poet, lyricist, and writer. She was born, raised and currently resides in New York. Ramana won the NY Knicks Poetry Slam, which awarded her a full tuition scholarship to St. John’s University. Soon after, she became the Youth Poet Laureate of NYC. She has since performed at events such as the US Open, Tribeca Film Festival, TV One’s “Verses and Flow,” Pharrell’s Adidas Campaign, SONY TV’s Asian Women in the Arts Awards, the Immigrant Gala, Apollo Theatre Slam Finals, Celebrate Bklyn!, the Source Magazine Festival and many more. Her work can be found on the Poetry Foundation and Academy of American Poets websites and in Seventh Wave and the Southampton Review. Ramana published her first collection of poems through Penmanship Books, which was released at Lincoln Center. In addition to performing and writing, Ramana has also worked as an educator and mentor for young poets and young women. She received her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Ramana is currently working as a librettist for an operetta film. Her hope is to remain a student of wonder and to explore truth sincerely through her work and her life.