Poet Alan Shapiro to Read from his Work in Galbreath Chapel
Contact: Jean Cunningham, Coordinator of Special Programs, (740) 593-4181
Editors: A photo of Alan Shapiro can be downloaded at www.ohiou.edu/news/pix/web/SHAPIRO_ALAN.JPG
ATHENS, Ohio (October 5, 2000) -- Award-winning poet Alan Shapiro will read from his work at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, in Galbreath Chapel on Ohio University's Athens campus. The reading, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of English's Creative Writing Program.
Shapiro is the author of six books of poetry, most recently "The Dead Alive and Busy." His other collections include "Happy Hour," which won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and "Mixed Company," which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry.
Emily Barton of The New York Times Book Review writes that Shapiro's poetry is "an eloquent testimony to the power of poetry to instruct, heal and inspire."
Shapiro also is the author of two memoirs, "The Last Happy Occasion," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography in 1997, and "Vigil," a memoir about his sister's death from breast cancer and winner of the New England Booksellers Discovery Designation. His translation of "Oresteia" by Aeschylus is forthcoming.
He is the recipient of two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and most recently the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. He teaches writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A reception and book signing will be conducted after the reading. For more information, contact the Office of Special Programs in the Department of English at 593-4181.
