By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 3-3-08
GREENSBORO, NC – Poet Elena Karina Byrne, author of “Masque” and “Flammable Bird,” will read Thursday, March 20, at UNCG.
The reading -- sponsored by the MFA Writing Program, The Greensboro Review and Spring Garden Press -- begins at 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.
Byrne is a visual artist, a teacher, an editor, and poetry consultant and moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Her work appears in a variety of literary journals and magazines including Paris Review, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review and Ploughshares as well as the “Poetry Daily Anthology” and “Best American Poetry 2005.”
Byrne is currently literary programs director for the Ruskin Art Club and the Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Night Vision” poetry programs.
For more information, contact Terry Kennedy at (336) 334-5459 or terry_kennedy@uncg.edu.
