Monday, February 08, 2010
Poet Douglas Goetsch to kick off spring RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series
Doug Goetsch
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Brandi Schwartz Marketing Coordinator Outreach & Engagement 812/464-1854 will begin with a poetry reading by Douglas Goetsch at 6 p.m. on Thursday, February 11 in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. Goetsch is the author of Nobody's Hell, The Job of Being Everybody, winner of the CSU Poetry Center Open Competition, and four chapbooks. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Donald Murray Prize, the Paumanok Prize, and two MARGIE prizes. Writings by Goetsch have appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, New York Quarterly, The Threepenny Review, The New England Review, online at Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR, and in Best American Poetry. Goetsch is currently a poet-in-residence at the University of Central Oklahoma and is the founding editor of Jane Street Press. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing. 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, associate professor of English, at 812/464-1916. |
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