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Roger Williams Celebrates National Poetry Month
BRISTOL, R.I., March 2008
– Dust off your copy of “Leaves of Grass” and recite a few Japanese haiku—it’s time to get ready for April’s National Poetry Month. To commemorate the month, the Roger Williams University Creative Writing Department will hold its fourth annual visiting poets series, which includes poetry readings and lectures featuring guest writers.
Poet K.A. Hays will visit the University on
Friday, April 11
, at 4 p.m. to read a sampling of her poetry that’s appeared in numerous journals and magazines including Southern Review and Mid-American Review.
On
Monday, April 21
, at 6 p.m., poet and critic Henry Gould and Italian translator Anny Ballardini will share the stage for a discussion of poetry translations and a bilingual reading of Mr. Gould’s book, “In RI,” which explores the history of colonial New England and the founding of Rhode Island. Ms. Ballardini translated the book into an English-Italian bilingual edition. Mr. Gould, of Brown University, is the author of numerous books of poetry, including 2001’s “Way Stations: Poems 1985-1997,” and Ms. Ballardini is a poet, translator, interpreter and editor of Poet’s Corner, an online poetry website.
At the end of the month, poet A. Van Jordan will hold a poetry reading on
Tuesday, April 29
, at 5 p.m. Mr. Jordan serves on the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of “Rise,” which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was selected for the Academy of American Poets book club.
The events are
free and open to the public
and will take place in the Mary Tefft White Cultural Center in the Main Library on the Bristol campus located at One Old Ferry Road. For more information, contact Renee Soto, assistant professor of creative writing, at (401) 254-5350.
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