Robert Rhodes, poet and author of "Nightwatch: An Inquiry into Solitude: Alone on the Prairie with the Hutterites," will read from his work at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, in the Musselman Library Reading Room at Bluffton University.

Beginning with refreshments at 3:45 p.m., the event, sponsored by the library and the university's Writers and Scholars Series, is free and open to the public.

After the reading, Rhodes will answer questions and sign copies of his book, which documents the six years that the former assistant editor of Mennonite Weekly Review and his family spent in a Hutterite colony in Minnesota.