UNC Asheville to Host Reading by Award-Winning Poet
Dana Levin

UNC Asheville will host a reading by award-winning poet Dana Levin at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at UNC Asheville’s Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall. Levin will share recent work as well as poems from her two highly acclaimed books, “In the Surgical Theatre” and “Wedding Day.” The event is free and open to the public.

Levin’s first book, “In the Surgical Theatre” received critical praise and won numerous awards, including the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Rain Taxi Book Review called the book “a true stunner, alive and pulsing in the reader’s hand. Levin has the skilled ear, magnificent tongue and fierce mind of the truly prophetic. I can’t remember when I’ve been this excited about a poet, much less drunk on a first collection.”

Levin, a California native, has earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Library of Congress, the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Whiting Foundation. She teaches in the master’s degree program for writers at Warren Wilson College and directs the Creative Writing Program at the College of Santa Fe, N.M.

The event is sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Creative Writing Program, Literature Club and Cultural & Special Events Committee.

For more information, call UNC Asheville’s Department of Literature and Language at 828/251-6411.

Media Contacts:

• Dr. Rick Chess, UNC Asheville Literature and Language Professor, 828/251-6576
• Jill Yarnall, UNC Asheville Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526