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Visiting Writer Series concludes with local poet
April 13, 2007
The 2006-07 Visiting Writer Series will conclude with Tess Gallagher, one America’s most well known poets, on Tuesday, April 17. Gallagher will answer student questions at 5 p.m. in the Hinderlie Hall lounge and read from her work at 8 p.m. in Leraas Lecture Hall in Rieke Science Center.
Gallagher’s newest collection, “Dear Ghosts,” was published in 2006. Her previous poetry collections include “Moon Crossing Bridge” and “Amplitude: New and Selected Poems.”
A graduate of the University of Washington and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she has received many awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Gallagher has also written essays, fiction, plays and the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts,” which adapted the stories of her late husband, Raymond Carver. She was born and continues to reside in Port Angeles, Wash.
The series is sponsored by the English department, with support from the provost’s office, the Wild Hope Project, Student Involvement and Leadership and the residential life office. To learn more, contact the English department at ext. 7321.
A graduate of the University of Washington and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she has received many awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Gallagher has also written essays, fiction, plays and the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts,” which adapted the stories of her late husband, Raymond Carver. She was born and continues to reside in Port Angeles, Wash.
The series is sponsored by the English department, with support from the provost’s office, the Wild Hope Project, Student Involvement and Leadership and the residential life office. To learn more, contact the English department at ext. 7321.