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University Reading
Series Welcomes On Thursday, May 5, the University Reading Series will host visiting writer John Repp, prize-winning poet and associate professor of English at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He will give a free public reading from his new collection of poems, The Fertile Crescent, published by Cherry Grove Collections, at 8 pm in the Studio Theatre of the McDade Center for the Literary and Performing Arts. A brief reception with refreshments and book-signing will follow. Copies of The Fertile Crescent are available for purchase at the University Bookstore. Repp’s book won the 2003 Lyre Poetry Prize and has been hailed by poet and critic Albert Goldbarth as “a comprehensive collection of poems, heartfelt and smart about our human condition.” Repp’s other collections include Thirst Like This, winner of the Devins Prize from the University of Missouri Press (1990) and the recent White Doe, published by Mayapple Press (2004). In addition to the public reading, Repp will meet with students in Jay Hill’s WRTG 316 (Poetry Writing 2) for an informal question & answer session. For more information, contact John Meredith Hill, Dept. of English. All University Reading Series Events are free and open to the public.
University Reading
Series Welcomes
For more information, contact John Meredith Hill, Dept. of English. All University Reading Series Events are free and open to the public.
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Thursday, April 14, the University Reading Series welcomes David Wyatt to campus
to give a free public reading from his new book, "And the War Came: An
Accidental Memoir," (UWisconsinPress, 2004) and to meet with students and
faculty in the English department's Writing program. Begun in the wake of 9/ll,
Wyatt records in day-to day journal entries his response to the event as he
pursues the demands and privileges of his personal and professional lives. This
activity leads him into an unplanned but compelling meditation on the nation's
cultural history and the often riddling dynamic of his own family's successes
and sorrows in mid- and late twentieth century America. Ann Beattie has
celebrated Wyatt's book as a gift that helps us to "reexamine our own lives in
the context of the choices we've made, and the decisions that have been made for
us, individually and as a nation."
Wyatt
will read at 8 pm in the Studio Theatre of the McDade Center for the Literary
and Performing Arts. An informal reception and book-signing will follow. Copies
of his book are available in the University bookstore. A professor of English at
the University of Maryland, Wyatt has authored many books including "Five Fires:
Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California (Addison Wesley, 1997), "Out of
the Sixties: Storytelling & the Vietnam Generation (Cambridge UP, 1993) and
"Prodigal Sons: A Study in Authorship and Authority (Johns Hopkins, l975). His
honors and awards include an NEH Summer Stipend, the Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize
from the University of Virginia, and research fellowships at the Huntington
Library.