The 82nd annual McKinney Reading Series and Student Awards Ceremony is Friday, April 19, 7:00-9:00 p.m. in the EMPAC Concert Hall, featuring 22nd US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer-Prize-Winner Tracy K. Smith. Hosted by the Department of Communication and Media and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences in collaboration with New York State Writers Institute, the event will feature the announcement of McKinney Student Writing Contest winners, a poetry reading, and audience Q & A. An opportunity to purchase books and meet the author will follow.