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4/4/05

POET TIMOTHY LIU IN ST. LAWRENCE WRITERS SERIES

CANTON – Poet Timothy Liu will speak and read from recent work in an 
appearance at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, April 14, at 8 p.m. 
in Herring-Cole. The event, part of the St. Lawrence Writers Series, is 
open to the public, free of charge.
	Liu  was born in San Jose, California, to parents from the Chinese 
mainland. He studied at Brigham Young University, the University of Houston 
and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author of Of 
Thee I Sing (University of Georgia Press, 2004); Hard Evidence (Talisman 
Books, 2001); Say Goodnight (1998), which was a finalist for the Lambda 
Literary Award; Burnt Offerings (1995); and Vox Angelica (1992), which won 
the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Liu has 
also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (Talisman 
House, 2000). His poems have been included in more than 20 anthologies 
and have appeared in such magazines and journals as Antioch Review, 
Denver Quarterly, Grand Street, Chelsea, Kenyon Review, New England 
Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry and TriQuarterly. Liu is 
an assistant professor at William Paterson University in Wayne, 
New Jersey.
	For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5125.
	
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