February 19, 2009 Issue
Seven Writers Featured in Spring 2009 Visiting Writers Series On ASU Campus
Diane Glancy Presents First Reading February 26
Poet, novelist and essayist Diane Glancy will present a reading on Thursday, February 26, at ASU.
The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in ASU Plemmons Student Union’s Table Rock Room. Admission is free. Books will be available for sales and signing.
The Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series sponsors the presentation.
Glancy also will give the craft talk “A Syllable of Water: The Need for Revision” from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. in Table Rock Room.
For more information, call 828-262-2337 or click to www.visitingwriters.appstate.edu.
Glancy is the author of “Rooms, New and Selected Poems,” “Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea,” “Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears,” “The Dance Partner: Stories of the Late 19th Century Ghost Dance” and “Asylum in the Grassland.”
She has received the American Book Award, Minnesota Book Award, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Emily Dickinson Poetry Prize. Glancy is the visiting Richard Thomas Chair at Kenyon College.
The ASU Foundation, and ASU’s Office of Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English, Office of Multicultural Student Development, Summer Reading Program, University Bookstore and the Appalachian Journal support the spring 2009 season of the Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series.
Business sponsors are the Gideon Ridge Inn and Red Onion Restaurant. Community sponsors include John and Marjorie Idol, Paul and Judy Tobin, Alice Naylor, Mildred Luckhardt, Thomas McLaughlin and the High Country Writers Network.
Parking is free on campus after 5:00 p.m. The parking deck on College Street adjacent to Belk Library and Information Commons provides easy access to Plemmons Student Union.
For more information, call 828-262-4046.
Want To Go?
Date: Thursday, February 26
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: ASU Plemmons Student Union’s Table Rock Room
Cost: Free
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