Thursday, October 05, 2006
Fall 2006 RopeWalk Reading Series: Amy Fleury, October 19
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Amy Fleury will present the second reading in the fall 2006 RopeWalk Reading Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 19, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. Fleury’s collection of poems Beautiful Trouble won the 2003 Crab Orchard First Book Award and was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2004. It was named a top 10 notable book of 2004 by the Kansas City Star. Her poems have appeared in The American Life in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, North American Review, and The Southeast Review, among others. Her fiction has been published in 21st and The Yalobusha Review. Fleury has been a recipient of the Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony and a Kansas Arts Commission fellowship in poetry. She resides in Topeka, Kansas, where she is an associate professor of English at Washburn University. A book-signing will follow the reading. The final fall 2006 reading will be presented by Judith Harris on November 16. For more information, contact Jim McGarrah, assistant professor of English, 812/461-5381. |
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