Plutzik presents African-American lyricist

Mackey

oet, editor, and jazz connoisseur Nathaniel Mackey will read from his works at 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 29, during the 40th anniversary season of the Hyam Plutzik Memorial Poetry Series at the University.

The first living poet to have a complete issue of Callaloo, a premier African-American literary journal, devoted to his work, Mackey has written seven books of poetry, of which Eroding Witness was selected for the National Poetry Series. Currently a professor of literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Mackey is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, editor of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century and the literary magazine Hambone, and coeditor of the anthology Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose.

The Plutzik series is one of the country's oldest and most prestigious literary reading programs. Established to honor the work of Hyam Plutzik, a distinguished poet and Deane Professor of Poetry and Rhetoric at the University, it has featured more than 175 noted writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Hecht, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Readings in spring 2002 will include Maureen Howard on February 26 and Nadine Gordimer on April 23.

Co-sponsored by the Department of English, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, the Frederick Douglass Institute for African-American Studies, and the College Diversity Roundtable, the reading by Mackey will be held in the Welles-Brown Room in Rush Rhees Library on the River Campus and is free and open to the public.

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