Part of the Words to Say It Visiting Writers Series, Caki Wilkinson will present a poetry reading at Coastal Carolina University. Wilkinson is the author of the collection Circles Where the Head Should Be, which won the Vassar Miller Prize, and The Wynona Stone Poems, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books. She has been published in notable journals like The Yale Review and is the director of the creative writing program at Rhodes College.

Johnson Auditorium, Wall 116 at Coastal Carolina University. Thursday, 5:30 p.m. Free. (843) 349-2787, coastal.edu/culturalarts