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10/4/04

AUTHOR HARRYETTE MULLEN IN SLU'S WRITERS SERIES

CANTON – Poet Harryette Mullen will speak and read from her work on Thursday, 
October 21, at 8 p.m. in Herring-Cole at St. Lawrence University, as part 
of its Writers Series. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
	Mullen was born in Florence, Alabama, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. 
She has earned degrees in English and in literature from the University of 
Texas, Austin, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Early in her 
career as a poet, she worked in the Artists in Schools program sponsored by 
the Texas Commission on the Arts, and for six years she taught African-American 
and other U.S. ethnic literatures at Cornell University.  Her books of 
poetry include Muse & Drudge (1995), S*PeRM**K*T (1992), Trimmings (1991), 
Tree Tall Woman (1981), Blues Baby (2002) and Sleeping with the Dictionary 
(2002). Sleeping with the Dictionary was a finalist for the National Book Award, 
Los Angeles Times Book Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.
	Her poetry has appeared in a wide variety of journals and magazines, 
and her poems and short fiction have also been included in Moving Borders: 
Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women (1998); The Jazz Poetry Anthology 
(1991) and elementary and secondary school textbooks, including a new edition 
of Reflections on A Gift of Watermelon Pickle (1995).
	Mullen's honors include artist grants from the Texas Institute of 
Letters and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico; the Gertrude Stein 
Award in Innovative American Poetry and a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Susan 
B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Rochester. She 
teaches African-American literature and creative writing at the University of 
California, Los Angeles.
	For more information, contact the English department, at 
315-229-5125.

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