Poet Carolyne Wright to Give Reading on Campus

As part of the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Lecture Series, poet Carolyne Wright will give a reading on March 1 at 7:30 p.m.in the Levis Browsing Room (Dinand Library). The event is free and  open to the public.

Carolyne Wright’s latest book of poetry is Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (2000) which won the Blue Lynx Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Other collections include Premonitions of an Uneasy Guest (AWP Award Series) (1983), Stealing the Children (1978), and an invitational chapbook, Carolyne Wright: Greatest Hits 1975-2001 (2002). She has also published a collection of essays, A Choice of Fidelities: Lectures and Readings from a Writer’s Life (1994) and volumes of poetry translated from Spanish and Bengali. Forthcoming in 2005 are A Change of Maps, poems, and Majestic Nights: Love Poems by Bengali Women.