FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, March 10, 2008
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
 

Poet, fiction writer to read from their work at Marshall

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Poet Mark DeFoe and fiction writer Richard Schmitt, both faculty members at West Virginia Wesleyan College, will read from their work at 8 p.m. Monday, March 17 in Room 2W16 of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus.

Their appearance is sponsored by the Marshall English Department’s Visiting Writers Series, now in its 19th year, and the College of Liberal Arts.

DeFoe’s eighth collection of poems, Weekend Update, has just appeared.  His work is widely anthologized and has appeared in such journals as Poetry, Yale Review, Paris Review, Christian Science Monitor, The Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review and Denver Quarterly.  He is the recipient of two Artist’s Fellowships from the state of West Virginia and has been recognized by many other awards.

Schmitt’s novel, The Aerialist, appeared from Harcourt in 2001.  It was named as a Barnes and Noble Discovery Series pick and as winner of the Chautauqua South Fiction Award.  His work has appeared in such literary journals as Mississippi Review, New Stories of the South: Year’s Best 1999, Gulf Coast, Flyway, Puerto del Sol and others.  He also is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information, contact Art Stringer in the English Department at (304) 696-2403.

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