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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mar. 01, 2006
CONTACT: Dina Smith, (515) 271-3127, dina.smith@drake.edu
Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119, lisa.lacher@drake.edu
POETS TO SPEAK AT DRAKE WRITERS AND CRITICS SERIES MARCH 8
As part of the Drake University Writers and Critics Series, poets Lisa Jarnot
and Mark McMorris will read from their work and discuss writing at 8 p.m. Wednesday,
March 8, in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center, 29th Street and University Avenue.
The event is free and open to the public.
Jarnot has edited two small magazines — No Trees and Troubled Surfer –
as well as The Poetry Project Newsletter and An Anthology of New American Poetry.
She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: “Some Other
Kind of Mission,” “Ring of Fire” and “Black Dog Songs.”
Her biography of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan is forthcoming from University
of California Press. She teaches at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School
of Disembodied Poetics, Long Island University and Brooklyn College.
McMorris, a two-time winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series Award from the
University of Georgia Press, is the author of four books of poetry: “The
Café at Light,” “The Blaze of the Poui,” “The
Black Reeds” and “Moth-Wings.” His work has appeared in numerous
journals and anthologies, such as Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in
the Americas and Europe and An Anthology of New (American) Poets. He teaches
at Georgetown University and coordinates the Georgetown Poetry and Seminar Series.
The schedule for the remainder of the spring series appears below:
The Drake Writers and Critics Series is sponsored by the Drake English Department and made possible by a grant from the Drake Center for the Humanities. For more information, contact Dina Smith at (515) 271-3127 or dina.smith@drake.edu.
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