Get a double dose of Plutzik in March
he annual Plutzik Reading Series continues in March with appearances by two noted authors: local poet Daniel Donaghy on March 1 and award-winning author Alan Shapiro on March 15.
Currently completing his doctorate in English at the University, Donaghy is the author of two chapbooks, Stadium Traffic and Kensington Avenue, and a new book-length collection of poems titled Streetfighting; copies will be available for purchase at the 5 p.m. reading in the Welles-Brown Room in Rush Rhees Library.
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He earned his bachelor's degree from Kutztown University, a master's degree from Hollins College, and a master of fine arts degree from Cornell University. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, Poet Lore, New Letters, Alaska Quarterly Review, Commonweal, and other journals.
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Alan Shapiro, the William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, will give a reading at 8 p.m. in the Welles-Brown Room. Shapiro is the author of several books of poetry as well as works of nonfiction and literary criticism. In 2001, he was awarded the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for emerging poets administered by Claremont Graduate University in California for his book The Dead, Alive, and Busy, a collection of poetry that explores issues of personal identity and the intimate bonds of family life.
Vigil, Shapiro's nonfiction work detailing the last four weeks of his sister's life as she battled breast cancer, won the Discovery Award from the New England Booksellers Association. Shapiro also received an O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. His other award-winning books include The Last Happy Occasion, Happy Hour, and Mixed Company.
Among other honors, Shapiro has received two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Los Angeles Times prize for poetry. In 2003, he was elected a fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Free and open to the public, the Plutzik Series is one of the country's oldest and most prestigious literary reading programs. The series, which is administered by the Department of English, was established to honor the work of Hyam Plutzik, a distinguished poet and Deane Professor of Poetry and Rhetoric. For more information, contact x5-4092.
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