Friday, February 20, 2004
USI writers retreat presents free reading
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The RopeWalk Winter Retreat, a program of University of Southern Indiana, will host a free public reading from 6:30 to 8 p.m. February 28 at Murphy Auditorium in New Harmony, Ind. The event will feature the 2004 winter retreat faculty, Allison Joseph and Lee Martin. A reception will follow the reading. Joseph is the author of four collections of poetry: What Keeps Us Here, winner of the 1992 Ampersand Press Women Poets Series Competition; Soul Train; In Every Seam; and Imitation of Life. This year, Word Press will be publishing her next collection, Worldly Pleasures, as the 2003 winner of the Word Press Poetry Prize competition. A professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, she also is the editor of Crab Orchard Review. Martin is the author of Quakertown, heralded by the Washington Post as “a consistently impressive and often dazzling new novel.” He also wrote the acclaimed memoir, From Our House, and the short story collection, The Least You Need to Know. His new memoir, Turning Bones, is just out as part of University of Nebraska’s American Lives Series. A native of southern Illinois, Martin is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University. The Ropewalk Winter Retreat, February 27-29, offers participants an opportunity to study short fiction/non-fiction with Martin or poetry with Joseph at the Barn Abbey, a rustic retreat center in New Harmony. USI gratefully acknowledges underwriters of the RopeWalk Writers Retreat: grants from Mrs. Ruth Lilly, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Blaffer Foundation, the USI Society for Arts & Humanities, and the support and assistance of Historic New Harmony. |
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