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Poet Susan Wood to Read at UNCG Nov. 8

GREENSBORO — Award-winning poet Susan Wood will give a free poetry reading at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, in the UNCG Faculty Center.

Wood is the author of three collections of poems: “Asunder,” selected by Garrett Hongo for the National Poetry Series and published by Penguin in 2001; “Campo Santo,” which received the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets for the best second book by an American poet and the Natalie Ornish Poetry Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters; and “Bazaar.”  She is a professor and chair of the Department of English at Rice University.

Her work has been widely published in literary magazines, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares and TriQuarterly. Some of her recent poems were selected for the Pushcart Prize 2000 and Best American Poetry 2000. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1998-99 and has also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and served as a senior writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

The reading is open to the public, and will be followed by a reception and book signing. Wood’s books will be available for purchase before and after the reading. The Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program sponsors the event. For more information, call the program at 334-5459 in the UNCG Department of English.

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