Poet Michael Collier to Give Reading on Campus

As part of the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Lecture Series, poet Michael Collier will give a reading on Thursday, Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Levis Browsing Room (Dinand Library). The event is free and open to the public.

Michael Collier is the author of four poetry collections: The Clasp and Other Poems (l986); The Folded Heart (1989); The Neighbor (1995); and The Ledge (2000), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In addition, he has edited three anthologies, The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of Contemporary American Poetry; The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. The recipient of Pushcart Prizes, a Thomas J. Watson traveling fellowship, two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Discovery/The Nation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Collier teaches at the University of Maryland and has been Poet Laureate of Maryland. Since 1995, he has also served as the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.