By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 3-11-09
Claudia Emerson.
GREENSBORO, NC – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson will read at UNCG Thursday, April 23, keynoting UNCG’s third annual Southeastern Literary Magazine and Independent Press Festival.
The reading, which also features novelist and MFA Writing Program alumnus George Singleton, begins at 7 p.m. in Elliott University Center Auditorium. It is free and open to the public; a reception and book signing will follow.
The Literary Festival runs Tuesday, April 21, through Saturday, April 25. Visit greensbororeview.org/festival for details.
The festival includes a literary magazine and independent press exhibition, workshops for writers and aspiring writers, an editors panel and small press readings. Writers Kathy Flann, Dorianne Laux, Al Maginnes, Joseph Millar, Jack Riggs and Eric Weil are also participating.
Emerson, poet laureate of Virginia, graduated from the MFA Writing Program in 1991. Her collection “Late Wife” won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
She will receive the first Donald Justice Award for Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers in April. Justice, who died in 2004, won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Emerson is a Virginia native and a professor of English at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. Her poetry collections include the recent “Figure Studies: Poems,” “Pharaoh, Pharaoh” and “Pinion: An Elegy.”
The MFA Writing Program and the UNCG Alumni Association are co-sponsoring the reading. For more information on the reading or the festival, contact Terry Kennedy at (336) 334-5459 or terry_kennedy@uncg.edu.
