By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 3-14-07
Judy Jordan
GREENSBORO, NC – Poet Judy Jordan will read Wednesday, March 28, at UNCG.
The Center for Creative Writing in the Arts and The Greensboro Review will host the reading, which begins at 4 p.m. in the UNCG Faculty Center. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow.
Jordan grew up on a small farm near the border between the Carolinas. Her parents were sharecroppers, and Jordan was the first member of her family to attend college, receiving her BA from the University of Virginia in 1990. In 1995 she earned an MFA in poetry at the same school, and in 1996 she received a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.
Jordan currently teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She is the author of three collections: “To Enter the Garden,” “60-Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance” and “Carolina Ghost Woods,” which won the 1999 Walt Whitman Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals and magazines including Blue Pitcher Review, Crossroads: A Journal of Southern Culture, Western Humanities Review and Writer’s Eye.
For more information, contact Terry Kennedy at (336) 334-5459.
