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10/6/03

IRISH POETRY IS TOPIC FOR SLU LECTURE ON READING

CANTON – Poet and publisher Jessie Lendennie will give the Eighth Annual 
Lecture on Reading at St. Lawrence University, on "Poetry and Poetry 
Publishing in Ireland: An Overview 1970-2003." The event, presented by 
the Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries, will be on Monday, 
October 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole. A reception will follow the 
lecture, which is open to the public, free of charge.
	Lendennie is a poet and managing director of Salmon Publishing, 
one of Ireland's leading literary publishers. She was born in Arkansas 
and educated at King's College, London, England. Lendennie moved to 
Galway, Ireland, in 1981 and was a founding member of the Galway Writing 
Workshop that year. She is a founding editor of The Salmon International 
Literary Journal and co-founder of Salmon Publishing. Since 1986 
Lendennie has run the press as its editor and managing director, 
commissioning, editing and publishing over 200 books, many of which 
were first collections from Irish women writers.
      She was the first chairperson of the Poetry Co-Operative which 
was set up in 1983 to promote the work of local poets and bring 
international poets to the West of Ireland. Lendennie was also an 
organizer of the first Galway International Poetry Festival in 1984 
and a founding member, in 1985, of the organizing committee of Cúirt, 
the International Literature Festival in Galway.
      Lendennie's poetry has been anthologized in Irish Poetry Now: 
Other Voices; Unveiling Treasures: The Attic Guide To The Published 
Works of Irish Women Literary Writers; and The White Page: Twentieth 
Century Irish Women Poets, and other books. In 1990 she was nominated 
for a Bank of Ireland Arts Award for service to the arts in Ireland. 
Lendennie is also the author of The Salmon Guide to Poetry Publishing 
in Ireland (1990) and The Salmon Guide to Creative Writing in Ireland 
(1993). 

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