Editor's note: Because of snow, the March 20 poetry reading will be rescheduled at a date to be determined.  

In celebration of Women’s History Month and the Four Poets: Brooks, Rich, Brown, Trethewey four-case exhibit on display in the University of Delaware's Morris Library, poet Celeste Doaks will read her original works, as well as material from the four American women poets on view in the exhibit, during the “Four Poets, Plus One” poetry reading.

The reading will be held at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room in Morris Library.

Throughout the event, Doaks will draw parallels between her work and the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Fleda Jackson Brown and Natasha Trethewey — the poets featured in the UD Library, Museums and Press exhibit. In doing so, she will illuminate the many tensions that exist for all female poets who explore race, sexuality and overall identity in this contemporary age.

Many of the prevailing themes the poets on exhibit investigate — loss of love, childhood angst, motherhood, family loyalty and debunked gender norms — are also focal points in the works by Doaks, who is visiting assistant professor of creative writing in the UD Department of English.

The exhibit is on view through March 30.