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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications (304) 696-7153
 

Poet to read from her work Nov. 3 at Marshall University

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Poet Diane Gilliam Fisher will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in room 2W16 of the Marshall University Memorial Student Center.

Fisher is the author of three collections of poems, most recently Kettle Bottom, which features poems that grow out of West Virginia history.  Eleanor Wilner writes that Fisher “makes the stone of the West Virginia mountains yield up its human past, and gives a second, enduring life through her art to the people of her home place.”

Her previous book is One of Everything, from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.  Her work has appeared in such journals as Appalachian Heritage, Appalachian Journal, Spoon River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sou’wester, and others.

Among her awards are an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship and the Intro Award from Perugia Press.  Her work also has been anthologized in Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School and elsewhere. 

She earned a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature from the Ohio State University and has taught Spanish at various universities.  She lives in Ravenna, Ohio with her husband and two daughters.

Her appearance is sponsored by the Marshall English Department and the College of Liberal Arts. More information is available by calling MU English professor Art Stringer at (304) 696-2403.

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