UNCA to Host Reading and Book Signing by
Poet Lee Ann Roripaugh
UNC Asheville will host a reading and book signing by poet Lee Ann
Roripaugh at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 29, at UNCA's Laurel Forum, 139 Karpen
Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Hailed by preeminent writer Ishmael Reed as "one of the brightest
talents" writing poetry today, Roripaugh gives voice to Japanese
settlers in the American West. Roripaugh, who has written several
collections if poetry, is an assistant professor of English at the
University of South Dakota. Her first collection was a 1998 winner of the
National Poetry Series Award and her most recent book, "Year of the
Snake," won the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry. Roripaugh is the
recipient of a 2003 Artist Fellowship from the Archibald Bush Foundation,
the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize and the Academy of American
Poets Prize.
The event is sponsored by UNCA's Literature Club, Creative Writing
Program and the Mills Fund.
For more information, call UNCA's Literature and Language Department at
828/251-6411.
Media Contacts:
- Dr. Rick Chess, Professor of Literature and Language, 828/251-6576
- Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director,
828/251-6526
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