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

Poet Joanie Mackowski to read from her work at Marshall University

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Poet Joanie Mackowski will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 17 in the Shawkey Room of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus.

Mackowski’s book of poems The Zoo won the 2000 Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.  She also was awarded the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize in 2003, which recognizes an exceptional “first book” of poems published in a given year.

Mackowski’s poems have appeared in The Yale Review, Poetry, New England Review, The Paris Review, Southwest Review, The Kenyon Review, and in other journals. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University from 1998 to 2000 and has taught at the college level since 1993.

In addition to teaching, she has worked as a journalist, a French translator, and a juggler. Originally from Connecticut, she now teaches in the writing program at the University of Cincinnati.

Her appearance is sponsored by the Marshall English Department and the College of Liberal Arts.  It is free and open to the public.

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

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