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2/25/08

Poet Cornelius Eady To Speak In SLU's Writers Series

CANTON - Poet Cornelius Eady will speak and read from recent works in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, March 6, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event, part of the University's Writers Series, is open to the public, free of charge.

Eady is the author of six books of poetry, Kartunes; Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry; You Don't Miss Your Water; The Autobiography of a Jukebox; and Brutal Imagination. A music-theatre piece he co-wrote, Running Man, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama, and a theatrical production of Brutal Imagination won the Oppenheimer Award for the best first play by an American playwright. His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Traveling Scholarship and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the University of Notre Dame.

For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5125.

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