Visiting Writer Paul Zimmer at ASU Thursday

Story by Anna Oakes

Award-winning poet Paul Zimmer will read from his work this Thursday, October 8, at the Plemmons Student Union at ASU.

The next featured author in ASU’s Visiting Writers Series is poet Paul Zimmer, the Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the university.

Zimmer will read from his work this Thursday, October 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Plemmons Student Union Table Rock Room on campus. Earlier in the day, Zimmer will give a craft talk titled “Poetry and the Heart” at 2:00 p.m. in the student union’s Price Lake Room, and a pre-reading reception with the writer will take place in the student union’s Multicultural Center at 6:00 p.m.

Zimmer has published 12 books of poetry, including Family Reunion, which won an Award for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; The Great Bird of Love, which was selected by William Stafford for the National Poetry Series; Big Blue Train; and Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems.

Two books of his memoirs and essays, After the Fire: A Writer Finds His Place and Trains in the Distance, have also been published. His writing has been awarded five Pushcart Prizes—three for poetry and two for essays. His pieces have been named as Notable Essays five times in the annual Best Essays of the Year Series, and he won Shenandoah’s Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay in 2005.

His new book of poetry, Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems, was published in spring 2007.

Honoring the late newspaperwoman and writer Rachel Rivers-Coffey, the Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing annually sponsors the residency of a writer of national prominence at ASU.

Parking is free on campus after 5:00 p.m. For more information, call 828-262-2871 or click to www.visitingwriters.appstate.edu.

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