Poet in the House: Doctor/Wordsmith Reads Sept. 18

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Posted 8-4-08

GREENSBORO — C. Dale Young, a doctor and a poet, will read Thursday, Sept. 18.

The MFA Writing Program is sponsoring the reading, which begins 8 p.m. in the Faculty Center on College Avenue. It is free and open to the public; a reception and book signing will follow.

Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of “The Day Underneath the Day,” and “The Second Person.” He is currently completing a third book manuscript of poems titled “TORN.”

He has won the Grolier Prize, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He has taught at several writers’ conferences, including the Catskill Poetry Workshops and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including “The Best American Poetry,” “Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation,” “Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century,” The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares and Poetry.

Young lives in San Francisco with the biologist and composer, Jacob Bertrand.