Oct. 21
7:30 p.m.
Mary L. Welch Theatre
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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING POET TO GIVE READING AT LYCOMING COLLEGE |
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WILLIAMSPORT, PA-- Pulitzer
Prize- winning poet Stephen Dunn will give a reading of his work on
Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 7:30 PM in the Mary L. Welch Theatre
at Lycoming College. Dunn is currently a distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, but has also held residencies at institutions such as Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University. He has authored twelve books of poetry including New and Selected Poems, Different Hours (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001), and, most recently, Local Visitations. Dunn has also been published in such prestigious publications as the Atlantic, The Nation, the New Republic, the New Yorker, and the American Poetry Review. |
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He has also published in Brilliant Corners,
Lycoming’s national literary journal. His poem "Open Door Blues"
from the latest issue was selected for and reprinted in The Best
American Poetry 2003. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, his honors include the Academy Award for Literature and the James Wright Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Dunn says that the greatest benefit of winning the Pulitzer is that his poetry "will be looked at with new regard and will be exposed to new readers. That’s really the most important thing." Dunn has given numerous poetry readings at colleges and universities such as Yale, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and performed a special poetry reading at the Library of Congress. For more information on attending the reading, contact the College Relations office at (570) 321-4037 or visit the Lycoming College Website: www.lycoming.edu.
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