September 18, 2007
For Immediate Release
For an interview:
Lee Mortensen
(801) 863-8785
Ryan Simmons
(801) 863-6290
Award-winning poet D. A. Powell will be reading for the English Department’s Guest Author Reading Series on Friday, September 21 at 12pm. The event will begin in room 206b of UVSC’s Student Center and will be followed by a reception in room 206a.
His published works have been described by Lee Mortensen, professor of English at UVSC, as “beautifully charming and shocking.” He’s received a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, to name only a few of his accomplishments, and now he’s bringing his voice and his poetry to UVSC.
Powell is the author of three collections of poetry —“Tea” (1998), “Lunch” (2000), and “Cocktails” (Graywolf, 2004), the latter of which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. According to Mortensen, Powell’s poetry combines popular culture, the AIDS pandemic, and his childhood in Georgia with a “hip neo-formal fixation.” Powell’s reading is sponsored by the English Department, The Gender Studies Club, The English Club, and the Gay/Straight Alliance.
This event, like all of the English Department’s Guest Author Readings, is free and open to the public.
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