11/2/12
SLU Hosts Poet Steve Gehrke In Writers Series
CANTON - Poet Steve Gehrke, author of Michelangelo's Seizure, will speak and read from his work in an appearance at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, November 8, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event, part of the University's Writers Series, is open to the public, free of charge.
Gehrke's book The Pyramids of Malpighi won the 2002 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and his first book, The Resurrection Machine, won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. He is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize and a residency award from the Lannan Foundation. He teaches at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Steve Gehrke's bio.
