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2/20/06

POET, NOVELIST NAOMI SHIHAB NYE TO SPEAK AT SLU

CANTON - Author Naomi Shihab Nye will speak and read from recent work in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, March 2, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event, part of the St. Lawrence Writers Series, is open to the public, free of charge.

Nye's recent publications include the poetry collections You & Yours and A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, as well as Going Going, a young-adult novel. Her 2002 collection 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award. Nye has been honored with Lannan and Guggenheim fellowships as well as with the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.

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

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