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8/27/01

SLU WRITERS SERIES BEGINS SEPTEMBER 6

CANTON - The St. Lawrence University Writers Series will begin on 
Thursday, September 6, with an appearance by Joel Peckham and Susan 
Atefat-Peckham, at 8 p.m. in Herring-Cole on campus. Winners of the 
University's Young Writers Contest, conducted in the spring, will also 
read from their works at the event.
	A poet and critic, Joel Peckham's poems, articles and reviews 
have appeared in numerous journals in the U.S. and Canada, including 
American Literature, The Black Warrior Review, The Southern Review and 
Yankee magazine. A native of Sharon, Massachusetts, Peckham also has new 
poems appearing in The Anthology of New England Poetry, forthcoming from 
the University Press of New England.
	Susan Atefat-Peckham's forthcoming poetry collection, That Kind 
of Sleep (Coffee House Press), was chosen for the prestigious National 
Poetry Series. Born in New York to Iranian immigrant parents, Atefat-Peckham's 
poetry is both unique and familiar. Her creative nonfiction manuscript, 
Black Eyed Bird, was a finalist for the AWP Intro Award and runner-up for 
the Beryl Markham Award in Creative Nonfiction from Story Line Press. Her 
poetry and essays have appeared widely in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, 
Northwest Review, The Southern Poetry Review and Under the Sun.
	The Peckhams hold Ph.D.'s from the University of Nebraska. They are 
co-founding editors of The Milkwood Review, an on-line literary journal, and 
teach in the English department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
	Other events in this year's Writers Series are Gayle Pemberton, 
September 20; Kate Cohen, October 23; Medbh McGuckian, November 6; Joy 
Harjo, November 15; Heather Sellers, February 7; Richard McBrien, February 
19; Richard Ford, April 11; and Stephen Dunn, April 24.
	For more information about the series, contact the English department 
at St. Lawrence, 315-229-5125.

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