CANTON -- The St. Lawrence University Writer’s Series will continue with poet and spoken-word artist Samantha Thornhill at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 28, in the Sykes Common Room, on Park Street across from the Brewer Bookstore.

Born in Trinidad, Thornhill has published poems in Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, The Louisville Review, Two Review, African American Review and Faultline.

Her poems take audiences from the Trinidadian streets of her childhood to the Brooklyn block where she now lives. Weaving a variety of geographies, subject matter and styles, Thornhill opens a new space in the oral literature tradition, and her performance talk-back aims to inspire the poet within each listener.

Thornhill teaches poetry and performance at the Juilliard School and creative writing seminars at the Bronx Academy of Letters.

The Writer’s Series, sponsored by St. Lawrence University’s Department of English, is free and open to the public. For more information and an upcoming list of visiting writers, visit www.stlawu.edu/english.