Friday, September 28, 2007
Two RopeWalk Readings within a week
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The RopeWalk Reading series will host the writers Michael Martone and Gary Gildner within a week of each other in October. Martone is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Double-wide, a new collection of his work over the last two decades; Michael Martone: Fictions, a memoir in contributor’s notes; The Blue Guide to Indiana; Seeing Eye; Pensees: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle; Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List; and The Flatness and Other Landscapes, which received the 1998 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction. He teaches creative writing in the University of Alabama’s MFA program. Martone’s reading will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday, October 3, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. Gildner is a nationally-recognized poet and writer whose books include Cleaning a Rainbow, recently released by BkMk Press; Somewhere Geese are Flying: New and Selected Poems; Blue Like the Heavens; The Second Bridge; and The Warsaw Sparks. He has received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes. He has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to both Poland and Czechoslovakia. Gildner lives in Idaho’s Clearwater Mountains. Gildner’s reading will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, October 8, in Room 0017 in the lower level of the David L. Rice Library. For more information, contact Nicole Reid, assistant professor of English, at 812/464-1916 or go to www.ropewalk.org. Wendy Knipe Bredhold USI News and Information Services wkbredhold@usi.edu 812/461-5259 |
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