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On April 20, the Leadership and Character Program will welcome award-winning poet Dr. Pádraig Ó Tuama to campus for his talk Virtue and Verse: What Poetry Can Teach Us About Character. The event will be held in Porter Byrum Welcome Center at 5:30 PM and will be free and open to the public. Claim your ticket here or show your Wake Forest ID for entry.

A poster in shades of brown advertising the poetry event. Logos for the Leadership and Character program and Bookmarks bookstore are present at the top of the poster. Below the logos, the poster features a photograph of the speaker, a white man wearing glasses and a long scarf and smiling at the camera. The poster reads "virtue and verse: what poetry can teach us about character. Monday, April 20, 5:30 PM, Porter Byrum Welcome Center, Kulynych Auditorium. Pádraig is an award-winning Irish poet and peacebuilder, the author of ten books and anthologies of poetry, the incoming professor of the practice in spirituality at Yale university, and the host of the popular podcast, Poetry Unbound, which has over 20 million downloads." There is a QR code linking to the website to claim a free ticket. The bottom of the poster reads "this event is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, LGBTQ+ Center, Wake Forest School of Divinity, Wake Forest University Press, and Wake the Arts."

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