BELLINGHAM - Western Washington University will host the 10th Annual Graduate Student Sampler at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, in the Rotunda Room of the Whatcom Museum.

This event is an annual reading of poetry and prose created by graduate students in Western's English Department. Sixteen students have volunteered to participate.

The diversity of work that will be presented is what makes this event different from any other, said Kelly Magee, an assistant professor of English at Western.

The sampler will include fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction works. Each reading will last about five minutes.

"I'll be reading a poem called ‘Saba and the Spice Trade,' which I wrote about a Yemeni girl I met while traveling in Morocco last year," said Western student Paige Hermansen. "She was in the final stages of moving to the United States, so the poem is about the world she is leaving behind and the one she is about to enter."

Some of the other students who will be reading their works at the event are Amanda Martin, Joshua Young, Morgan Janiak and Lori Brack.

This event is free and open to the public. The Whatcom Museum is located at 121 Prospect St. in Bellingham.

For more information about this event, please contact Kelly Magee at (360) 650-2650 or kelly.magee@wwu.edu.

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