Open Field Reading Series

The Open Field Reading Series brings to Wayne State's campus acclaimed writers from across the region and nation. In recent seasons, we've hosted such novelists as Angela Flournoy, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Fernanda Eberstadt. Writers of nonfiction have included Kiese Laymon, Rae Paris, and Eileen Pollack. Poets have included Justin Phillip Reed, Johannes Göransson, and Edward Hirsch, among many others. Selections from current and previous seasons can be found here.