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4/9/01

POET CHASE TWICHELL PART OF SLU WRITERS SERIES

CANTON -- Chase Twichell, author of five books of poems, will speak 
and read from her recent work in an appearance at St. Lawrence University 
on Wednesday, April 18, at 8 p.m. in Herring-Cole. The event, the 
Sandra M. Nelson Memorial Poetry Reading and part of the St. Lawrence 
Writers Series, is open to the public, free of charge.
	Twichell's most recent book, The Snow Watcher, won the Alice 
Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1998. 
Her work has appeared widely in magazines, including The New Yorker 
and The Georgia Review, and she has received grants from the National 
Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Twichell is on 
the faculty of the master of fine arts program for writers at Warren 
Wilson College and the creative writing program at Princeton University.
	In 1999, Twichell founded Ausable Press, which publishes poetry 
and books of regional interest. She lives in Keene, New York, with her 
husband, novelist Russell Banks.

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