Tuesday, April 10, 2007
RopeWalk Reading celebrates National Poetry Month
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April is National Poetry Month, and the final reading in the spring 2007 RopeWalk Reading Series will feature two University of Evansville poets: Rob Griffith and Paul Bone. Originally from Memphis, Griffith is an associate professor at UE, where he is co-editor of the poetry journal Measure: An Annual Review of Formal Poetry and co-director of the University of Evansville Press, which manages the annual Richard Wilbur Book Award. His work has been published in magazines and journals such as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Oxford American, The Formalist, and others. He has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and in 1999 was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His first chapbook, Necessary Alchemy (Middle Tennessee State University), won the 1999 Tennessee Chapbook Competition, and his latest chapbook, Poisoning Caesar, came out in fall 2004 from Finishing Line Press. His first full-length collection, A Matinee in Plato’s Cave, was recently published by Water Press and Media. Bone is from Vandalia, Illinois. After graduating from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, he earned an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas in 1999. His manuscript Momentary Vision of the Assistant Meteorologist won the 2005 Uccelli Chapbook Contest, and his poems have been published in The Cream City Review, Quarterly West, and Farmer’s Market. Bone is also the co-editor of Measure. He teaches creative writing, literature, and World Cultures. They will read their work at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. For more information, contact Jim McGarrah, assistant professor of English, at 812/461-5381. |
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