March 26: MInnesota State Mankato's Good Thunder Reading Series Hosts Poet Tyree Daye

Thursday, March 26, 2026
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
First event

Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State University, Mankato’s 2025-2026 Good Thunder Reading Series will host poet Tyree Daye Thursday, March 26 in the series’ fourth event of the 2025-26 academic year.

In addition, Minnesota State Mankato faculty member Michael Torres will join Daye for the evening reading.

All of the events are free and open to the public. Campus visitor parking information is available at: https://www.mnsu.edu/visit/campus-visitor-parking/

Thursday, March 26 schedule:

• 10-11 a.m. – Workshop, Memorial Library, first floor.
• 3-3:50 p.m. – Craft Talk, Ostrander Auditorium, Centennial Student Union. Books available for purchase.
• 7:30-8:15 p.m. – Tyree Daye will read from his work, Carnegie Art Center, 120 S. Broad St., Mankato. He will be joined by Michael Torres. Books available for purchase.

The following information about Tyree Daye was provided by the Good Thunder Reading Series: Tyree Daye was raised in Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of the poetry collections “a little bump in the earth” (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), “Cardinal” (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and “River Hymns” (American Poetry Review, 2017), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. A Cave Canem fellow and a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes fellow, Daye is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a Kate Tufts Award finalist, and a 2021 Paterson Prize finalist. He was the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and he received an Amy Clampitt Residency. Daye is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In January 2023, Daye served as guest editor of the Poem-a-Day series.

Founded in 1981, the Good Thunder Reading Series brings nationally and internationally acclaimed writers from diverse backgrounds and literary traditions to Mankato, Minnesota, with the goal of promoting access to great literature, inspiring creativity, and connections in our communities, and fostering lively conversations about how writers work and why writing matters.

The Good Thunder Reading Series is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

The 2025-26 Good Thunder Reading Series also receives support from Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Creative Arts; College of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment; the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment; the Robert C. Wright Endowment; the Minnesota State Arts Board; Friends of the Library; and individual donors.

For more information or to get involved, contact Robin Becker, a creative writing faculty member at Minnesota State Mankato, at robin.becker@mnsu.edu, or visit gt.mnsu.edu.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 15,721 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 26 colleges and seven universities.