Thursday, September 16, 2010
Meitner to present first fall RopeWalk Reading on September 23
Contact for more information:
Brandi Schwartz Marketing Coordinator Outreach & Engagement 812/464-1854 Meitner's first book, Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, won the 2002 Anhinga Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her second book, Ideal Cities, was selected by Paul Guest as a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series competition. Meitner will publish her third collection, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, next year. Meitner is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech in the Master of Fine Arts program. She is pursing a doctorate in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia where she was the Morgenstern Fellow in Jewish Studies and served on the Virginia Quarterly Review's Poetry Board. 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. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing. Publications by Meitner are available for purchase at the USI Bookstore and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. For more information, call Nicole Louise Reid, associate professor of English, at 812/464-1916. |
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