Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Lee K. Abbott RopeWalk Reading is February 24
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A RopeWalk Reading by Lee K. Abbott will be held at 5 p.m. Tuesday, February 24, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. The event was originally scheduled for January 29 but was postponed due to the ice storm. Students are encouraged to meet the author before his reading at a 4 p.m. reception in the Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center/Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries in the Liberal Arts Center. Light refreshments will be served. Abbott is author of All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories, Dreams of Distant Lives, Strangers in Paradise, Love is the Crooked Thing, The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting, Living After Midnight, and Wet Places at Noon, all collections of stories. His many short stories and reviews, as well as articles on American literature, have appeared in such journals and magazines as Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Southern Review, Epoch, Boulevard, and The North American Review. His fiction has been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories and The Prize Stories: The O’Henry Awards. He has twice won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and was awarded a Major Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in 1991. The schedule for the rest of the spring 2009 RopeWalk Reading Series includes Molly Giles on March 25 and Norman Minnick on April 14. Giles is a winner of the Pushcart Prize, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Small Press Book Award, Boston Globe Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories have been featured on National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts.” Giles made a triumphant debut as a novelist in 2000 with the critically acclaimed Iron Shoes. Giles is a professor and director of programs in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. Minnick’s collection To Taste the Water blends elements of nature, family, and Asian poetry, and was awarded the First Series Award for Poetry by Mid-List Press. He teaches at Butler University and the Writers’ Center of Indiana. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in art from Marian College in Indianapolis and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Florida International University in Miami. He is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Minnick lives in Indianapolis with his wife and two young children. Each reading will be held at 5 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. A book signing will follow each program. Readings in the RopeWalk Series are free and open to the public. Publications by these authors are available to purchase at USI Bookstore and Barnes & Noble Booksellers. Presented by USI’s College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers’ Union. For more information, call Nicole Reid, assistant professor of creative writing, at 812/464-1916. Wendy Knipe Bredhold News & Information Services 812/461-5259 or wkbredhold@usi.edu |
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