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For Immediate Release
September 28 , 2007
poets featured in nebraska wesleyan fall reading series
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced its program for the annual fall Wesleyan Reading Series, which will feature three nationally recognized poets.
Graham Foust, author of three books of poems and Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., will share his poetry on Monday, October 15 at 7 p.m. in Callen Conference Center. His books include As In Every Deafness, Leave the Room to Itself, and Necessary Stranger.
On October 24, author Christian Hawkey, a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, will give an evening reading. The author of The Book of Funnels, the chapbook, HourHour, and Citizen Of, will read at 7 p.m. In 2006, he was presented a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award, and was recently honored with a DAAD Fellowship in Berlin. He will entertain a question and answer session at 3:30 p.m. in Alabaster Lounge, located in Old Main.
Harryette Mullen will conclude the fall reading series on November 8. She is the author of Sleeping With The Dictionary, a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award. In addition, she is the author of S*PeRM**K*T, Muse & Drudge, Blues Baby, and most recently, Recyclopedia. She currently teaches poetry and African-American literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry, and Rockefeller Fellowship from the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester. Her reading will begin at 7 p.m. in Callen Conference Center.
All reading series events are free and open to the public. Callen Conference Center is located in the lower-level of the Smith-Curtis Administration Building, one block east of 50th Street and St. Paul Ave. in Lincoln.
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