By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Posted 3-26-08
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Poets Kelly Cherry and Leigh Anne Couch, both graduates of the MFA Writing Program at UNCG, will read on campus Wednesday, April 23.
The reading – sponsored by The Greensboro Review in conjunction with the Center for Creative Writing in Arts, the UNCG Alumni Association and Waccamaw – begins at 7 p.m. in the Faculty Center on College Avenue. Part of the second annual Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival, the event is free and open to the public; a reception and book signing will follow.
Cherry is the author of 17 books, including the poetry collections “God's Loud Hand,” “Death and Transfiguration” and “Rising Venus.” Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Cherry lives with her husband on a small farm in Virginia.
Couch lives in Tennessee with her husband, Kevin Wilson, and is the managing editor of the Sewanee Review. She is the author of the poetry collections “Houses Fly Away” and “Green and Helpless.” Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, The Carolina Quarterly and other journals. She has held residency fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.
For more information, contact Terry Kennedy at (336) 334-5459 or terry_kennedy@uncg.edu.
