| WHAT: | Poetry Reading Featuring Dave Smith and David Gewanter |
| WHEN: | Wednesday, April 20, 4:10 p.m. |
| WHERE: | The Catholic University of America Hannan Hall, Room 108 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington, D.C. |
| DETAILS: | Dave Smith, Eliot Coleman Professor of Poetry and chair of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and David Gewanter, professor of English and creative writing at Georgetown University, will read their poetry at The Catholic University of America on April 20. Smith is the author of Little Boats , Unsalvaged , The Wick of Memory, New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 , Onliness , Southern Delights , and two collections of essays: Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry and Hunting Men: Reflections on a Life in American Poetry . He was the editor of The Southern Review from 1990 to 2002 at Louisiana State University, where he was also the Boyd Professor of English. Currently, he is the editor of the Southern Messenger Poetry Series at Louisiana State University. Smith has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lyndhurst Fellowship. He also has received the Virginia Prize in Poetry and an Award in Poetry from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Gewanter is author of In the Belly , The Sleep of Reason , and War Bird . His awards include the John C. Zacharis first book prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the Contemporary Poetry Review "Book of the Year." Other awards include the Whiting Emerging Writer's Award, the Witter Bynner Fellowship, the Hopwood Essay Prize, Eisner Prizes, Academy of American Poets prizes, and the Levinson Teaching Award. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Department of English at 202-319-5488. |
| SPONSORS: | Department of English Graduate Student Association |