By Sean Olson, University Relations
David Rivard will read Feb. 16.
UNCG will host a poetry reading by David Rivard at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Faculty Center.
The reading, sponsored by the MFA Writing Program and The Greensboro Review, is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Rivard is celebrating the release of “Sugartown,” his latest collection of poetry. He is also the author of “Bewitched Playground,” “Torque,” which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and “Wise Poison,” winner of the 1996 James Laughlin Award. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Greensboro Review, New England Review and Ploughshares. He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and fellowships from the Massachusetts Arts Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He was also the winner of the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Pushcart Prize.
Rivard is currently poetry editor at the Harvard Review and teaches at Tufts University and the Vermont College MFA Writing Program.
For more information on this or other readings at UNCG, call the MFA Writing Program at 336-334-5459. Click here for a map of campus.
