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(Posted 2-9-04)
Contact: Steve Gilliam, 336-334-5371

Poet Eleanor Wilner to Give Feb. 26 Reading at UNCG

GREENSBORO – Eleanor Wilner will read from her poetry at 8 p.m. Thursday, February 26, at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The event will be in the Faculty Center on College Avenue.

The reading is open to the public at no charge, and will be followed by a reception and book signing. The event is sponsored by the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program. More information is available by calling the program at 334-5459 in the UNCG Department of English.

Wilner is the author of several poetry collections, including “Sarah’s Choice,” and most recently, “Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems.” Wilner has won many awards including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Jupiter Prize. She has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. Wilner’s poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker and the Norton Anthology of Poetry.

Wilner is on the faculty of the MFA Writing Program at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, and lives in Philadelphia.

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