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2/26/07

POET NICK CARBÓ IN SLU WRITERS SERIES

CANTON - Poet Nick Carbó will speak and read from recent works in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, March 8, 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.

Carbó is the author of the poetry collections Andalusian Dawn, El Grupo McDonald's and Secret Asian Man, which won the Asian American Literary Award. He has edited several anthologies, including Returning a Borrowed Tongue: An Anthology of Filipino and Filipino American Poetry and Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers. Carbó has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts, and his poems have been featured in the PBS television show ""Heritage" and National Public Radio's "Intersections."

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

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