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Visiting writer’s series begins with a poet
September 12, 2008
The annual visiting writer’s series kicks off next week, Sept 25, with Cate Marvin, the author of two acclaimed books of poetry: “World’s Tallest Disaster,” which won the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the 2002 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and “Fragment of the Head of the Queen,” both published by Sarabande Books.
In 2008, Marvin received the Whiting Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Slate, Fence and Boston Review. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Lesley University and is an associate professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
The event will take place at 5 p.m. in the Garfield Book Company, with a reading at 8 p.m. in the Regency Room of the University Center.
The event will take place at 5 p.m. in the Garfield Book Company, with a reading at 8 p.m. in the Regency Room of the University Center.