Friday, October 09, 2009
Poet/musician Brett Eugene Ralph to read from his Black Sabbatical
Contact for more information:
Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 As part of the University of Southern Indiana's RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series, Ralph will read his poetry at 5 p.m. Thursday, October 15, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. Ralph spent the better part of his youth in Louisville, Kentucky, playing football and singing in punk rock bands. His work has appeared in publications such as Conduit, Mudfish, Willow Springs, and The American Poetry Review, and his poems have been anthologized in The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets and The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Missouri State University, and the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies in the Himalayas of northern India. He lives in Empire, Kentucky, and teaches at Hopkinsville Community College. His official biography states that his country rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, "can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South." Matthew Graham, director of Creative Writing, said, "Brett Ralph's poetry contains the anger and outrage of a young man as well as the insight and slightly cynical wisdom of a mature man. Come to his reading and learn how a life can be lived." The 2009 RopeWalk series also includes: XX Eccentric Women, October 29 Six contributing authors will read from their short stories in XX Eccentric: Stories about the Eccentricities of Women, an anthology published by Main Street Rag. Award-winning novelists and short story authors C. Jane Bradley, Amy Locklin, Molly McCaffrey, Nicole Louise Reid, Kathryn Shaver, and Josh Woods will share the stage "for an evening of eccentricity." Lili Wright, November 12 Lili Wright worked as a newspaper reporter for 10 years before she earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University. She is author of the travel memoir, Learning to Float: The Journey of a Woman, a Dog, and Just Enough Men (Broadway, 2002). Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, The Chicago Tribune, Maize, Grand Tour and other publications. She teaches writing at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where she lives with her husband and two children. Her essay, "Pilgrim," excerpted from a work-in-progress called Mother at Sea, won the 2009 Southern Indiana Review Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award. Each reading is free and open to the public, and will be held at 5 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. A book signing will follow each program. 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 Visiting Writers 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 Louise Reid, assistant professor of creative writing, at 812/464-1916. |
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